[PDF] Fifty Years Of Archeology In Eurasia eBook

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004325476

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Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics re-examines the relationship between Eurasia’s past and its present by interrogating the social construction of time and the archaeological production of culture. Traditionally, archaeological research in Eurasia has focused on assembling normative descriptions of monolithic cultures that endure for millennia, largely immune to the forces of historical change. The papers in this volume seek to document forces of difference and contestation in the past that were produced in the perceptible engagements of peoples, things, and places. The research gathered here convincingly demonstrates that these forces made social life in ancient Eurasia rather more fitful and its publics considerably more unruly than archaeological research has traditionally allowed. Contributors are Mikheil Abramishvili, Paula N. Doumani Dupuy, Magnus Fiskesjö, Hilary Gopnik, Emma Hite, Jean-Luc Houle, Erik G. Johannesson, James A. Johnson, Lori Khatchadourian, Ian Lindsay, Maureen E. Marshall, Mitchell S. Rothman, Irina Shingiray, Adam T. Smith, Kathryn O. Weber and Xin Wu.

Author : Charles W. Hartley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2012-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139789384

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For thousands of years, the geography of Eurasia has facilitated travel, conquest and colonization by various groups, from the Huns in ancient times to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the past century. This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day, from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in the west to the Mongolian steppe and the Korean Peninsula in the east. The authors examine a wide-ranging series of archaeological studies in order to better understand the role of politics in the history and prehistory of the region. This book re-evaluates the significance of power, authority and ideology in the emergence and transformation of ancient and modern societies in this vast continent.

Author : Manuel Fernández-Götz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316943178

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Our current world is characterized by life in cities, the existence of social inequalities, and increasing individualization. When and how did these phenomena arise? What was the social and economic background for the development of hierarchies and the first cities? The authors of this volume analyze the processes of centralization, cultural interaction, and social differentiation that led to the development of the first urban centres and early state formations of ancient Eurasia, from the Atlantic coasts to China. The chronological framework spans a period from the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age, with a special focus on the early first millennium BC. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach structured around the concepts of identity and materiality, this book addresses the appearance of a range of key phenomena that continue to shape our world.

Author : Katherine V. Boyle
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :

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An overview and reassessment of what is known about the people who colonized and occupied Eurasian steppe from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.

Author : University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology (3rd 2008)
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 9781139776509

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Papers originally presented at the Third University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, May 1-3, 2008.

Author : David L. Peterson
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This collection of articles presents a wide array of fresh new perspectives on the archaeology of Eurasia from the Copper Age to early Mediaeval times, in the Independent States of the former USSR, as well as Turkey, China and Mongolia.