Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Ages

Informationen zum Autor Ludmila Koryakova is a professor at Ural State University and the Institute of History and Archaeology at the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the European Community (INTAS foundation), the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is the author of more than eighty publications in Russian, European, and American books and journals. Klappentext This book is the first synthesis of the archaeology of the Urals and Western Siberia. Zusammenfassung The first synthesis of the archaeology of the Urals and Western Siberia! presenting a comprehensive overview of the late prehistoric cultures of these regions! which are key to the understanding of long-term changes in Eurasia. It will be of interest to academics! graduate students and specialists in archaeology and prehistory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Bronze Age: The Rise of Economic and Cultural Complexity: 1. The development of bronze metallurgy; 2. The achievements and collisions of the early and middle Bronze Age; 3. Stabilization, colonization and expansion in the late Bronze Age; 4. On the eve of a new epoch: final Bronze Age; Part II. The Iron Age: Forming Eurasian Interactions: 5. The transition to the Iron Age and new tendencies in economic development; 6. The Southern Ural within the nomadic world: at the cultural crossroads; 7. The world of cultures of Cis-Urals forest zone of Eastern Europe: the maintenance of identities; 8. The forest-steppe cultures of the Urals and western Siberia: on the northern periphery of the nomadic world; 9. Social trends in north-central Eurasia during the second and first millennia BC.

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• Authors: Andrej Epimakhov, Andrej Vladimirovich Epimakhov, Andrej Vladimirovich (Southern Ural State University Epimakhov, Ludmila Koryakova, Ludmila (Southern Ural State University Koryakova, Ludmila N. Koryakova, Ludmila N. Epimakhov Koryakova
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107653290
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65329-0
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Cambridge World Archaeology; Cambridge World Archaeology (P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)