Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Frontispiece: Eurasian Steppe Zone and the Greater Ancient Near East
- 1 Archaeological Theory and Archaeological Evidence
- 2 The Chalcolithic Prelude – From Social Hierarchies and Giant Settlements to the Emergence of Mobile Economies, ca. 4500–3500 BC
- 3 The Caucasus – Donor and Recipient of Materials, Technologies, and Peoples to and from the Ancient Near East
- 4 Taming the Steppe – The Development of Mobile Economies: From Cattle Herders with Wagons to Horseback Riders Tending Mixed Herds; the Continued Eastward Expansion of Large-Scale Metallurgical Production and Exchange
- 5 Entering a Sown World of Irrigation Agriculture – From the Steppes to Central Asia and Beyond: Processes of Movement, Assimilation, and Transformation into the “Civilized” World East of Sumer
- 6 The Circulation of Peoples and Materials – Evolution, Devolution, and Recurrent Social Formations on the Eurasian Steppes and in West Asia: Patterns and Processes of Interconnection during Later Prehistory
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Frontispiece: Eurasian Steppe Zone and the Greater Ancient Near East
- 1 Archaeological Theory and Archaeological Evidence
- 2 The Chalcolithic Prelude – From Social Hierarchies and Giant Settlements to the Emergence of Mobile Economies, ca. 4500–3500 BC
- 3 The Caucasus – Donor and Recipient of Materials, Technologies, and Peoples to and from the Ancient Near East
- 4 Taming the Steppe – The Development of Mobile Economies: From Cattle Herders with Wagons to Horseback Riders Tending Mixed Herds; the Continued Eastward Expansion of Large-Scale Metallurgical Production and Exchange
- 5 Entering a Sown World of Irrigation Agriculture – From the Steppes to Central Asia and Beyond: Processes of Movement, Assimilation, and Transformation into the “Civilized” World East of Sumer
- 6 The Circulation of Peoples and Materials – Evolution, Devolution, and Recurrent Social Formations on the Eurasian Steppes and in West Asia: Patterns and Processes of Interconnection during Later Prehistory
- Appendix
- References
- Index
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- The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia , pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007