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Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals and Mobility
Bryan Hanks
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hardcover. Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns. Editor(s): Hanks, Bryan K.; Linduff, Katheryn M. Num Pages: 438 pages, 93 b/w illus. 21 maps 11 tables. BIC Classification: HDDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 708.
Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia challenges current interpretations of the emergence, development, and decline of social complexity in the steppe region of China and the former Soviet Union. Through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns ranging from monument construction and use and production and consumption of metals to the nature of mobility among societies, the essays in this volume provide the most up-to-date thinking on social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia. Collectively, they challenge broader theoretical trends in Anglo-American archaeology, which have traditionally favored comparative studies of sedentary agricultural societies over mobile pastoralist or agro-pastoralist communities. By highlighting the ... Read more
Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia challenges current interpretations of the emergence, development, and decline of social complexity in the steppe region of China and the former Soviet Union. Through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns ranging from monument construction and use and production and consumption of metals to the nature of mobility among societies, the essays in this volume provide the most up-to-date thinking on social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia. Collectively, they challenge broader theoretical trends in Anglo-American archaeology, which have traditionally favored comparative studies of sedentary agricultural societies over mobile pastoralist or agro-pastoralist communities. By highlighting the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
Number of Pages
438
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521517126
SKU
V9780521517126
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About Bryan Hanks
Bryan K. Hanks is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and research associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. He has been involved in collaborative archaeological research in the Russian Federation since 1998 and has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Katheryn M. ... Read more
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