Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in bronze age Eurasia /

"Michael D. Franchetti combines an analysis of newly documented archaeological sites in the Koksu River valley of eastern Kazakhstan with detailed paleoecological and ethnohistorical data to illustrate patterns in land use, settlement, burial, and rock art. His investigation illuminates the pra...

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Main Author: Frachetti, Michael D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conceptualizing pastoralist landscapes
  • An archaeology of bronze age Eurasia
  • Continuity, variation, and change of the Eurasian steppe environment
  • Between ethnography and history : pastoralism and society in Semirech'ye and the Dzhungar Mountains
  • A pastoralist landscape in Semirech'ye : archaeology of the Koksu River Valley
  • Bronze age pastoralism, landscape, and social interaction
  • Conclusion.