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A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes

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First English-language monograph to describe seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes; the final report of the Samara Valley Project. Explores the changing organiza...
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The first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent Late Bronze Age settlements in the Russian steppes, this is the final report of the Samara Valley Project, a US-Russian archaeological investigation conducted between 1995 and 2002. It explores the changing organization and subsistence resources of pastoral steppe economies from the Eneolithic (4500 BC) through the Late Bronze Age (1900-1200 BC) across a steppe-and-river valley landscape in the middle Volga region, with particular attention to the role of agriculture during the unusual episode of sedentary, settled pastoralism that spread across the Eurasian steppes with the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures (1900-1200 BC). Three astonishing discoveries were made by the SVP archaeologists: agriculture played no role in the LBA diet across the region, a surprise given the settled residential pattern; a unique winter ritual was practiced at Krasnosamarskoe involving dog and wolf sacrifices, possibly related to male initiation ceremonies; and overlapping spheres of obligation, cooperation, and affiliation operated at different scales to integrate groups defined by politics, economics, and ritual behaviors.
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Price: £75.00
Pages: 560
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Imprint: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Monumenta Archaeologica
Publication Date: 15 July 2016
ISBN: 9781938770050
Format: Hardcover
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology
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David W. Anthony is a professor and the chair of the anthropology department at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He is the author of the bestselling book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Dorcas R. Brown is a research associate in anthropology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Aleksandr A. Khokhlov is the chair of the Anthropological Laboratory and an associate professor at the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities in Samara, Russia. Pavel F. Kuznetsov is the director of the Museum of the Volga Region and an associate professor at the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities in Samara, Russia. Oleg D. Mochalov is the rector of the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities in Samara, Russia.

Part I Introduction and Overview of the Samara Valley Project 1995-2002
Ch. 1 The Samara Valley Project and the Evolution of Pastoral Economies in the Western Eurasian Steppes by David W. Anthony
Ch. 2 Archaeological Field Operations in the Lower Samara Valley, 1995-2001, with Observations on Srubnaya Pastoralism by David W. Anthony, Dorcas R. Brown, and Pavel F. Kuznetsov
Part II History, Ecology, and Settlement Patterns in the Samara Oblast
Ch. 3 Historic Records of the Economy and Ethnic History of the Samara Region by Oleg D. Mochalov, Dmitriy V. Romanov, and David W. Anthony
Ch. 4 The Samara Valley in the Bronze Age: A Review of Archaeological Discoveries by Pavel F. Kuznetsov and Oleg D. Mochalov (Translated from Russian by David W. Anthony)
Ch. 5 Paleoecological Evidence for Vegetation, Climate, and Land-Use Change in the Lower Samara River Valley by Laura M. Popova
Part III Human Skeletal Studies
Ch. 6 Demographic and Cranial Characteristics of the Volga-Ural Population in the Eneolithic and Bronze Age by Aleksandr A. Khokhlov
Ch. 7 Stable Isotope Analysis of Neolithic to Late Bronze Age Populations in the Samara Valley by Rick J. Schulting and Michael P. Richards
Ch. 8 A Bioarchaeological Study of Prehistoric Populations from the Volga Region by Eileen M. Murphy and Aleksandr A. Khokhlov
Part IV Excavation and Specialist Reports for the Krasnosamarskoe Kurgan Cemetery and Settlement and the Herding Camps in Peschanyi Dol
Ch. 9 The Geoarchaeology of the Krasnosamarskoe Sites by Arlene Miller Rosen
Ch. 10 Excavations at the LBA Settlement at Krasnosamarskoe by David W. Anthony, Dorcas R. Brown, Pavel F. Kuznetsov, and Oleg D. Mochalov
Ch. 11 Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Middle Volga by David L. Peterson, Peter Northover, Chris Salter, Blanca Maldonado, and David W. Anthony
Ch. 12 Floral Data Analysis: Report on the Pollen and Macrobotanical Remains from the Krasnosamarskoe Settlement by Laura M. Popova
Ch. 13 Phytoliths from the Krasnosamarskoe Settlement and Its Environment by Alison Weisskopf and Arlene Miller Rosen
Ch. 14 Dog Days of Winter: Seasonal Activities in a Srubnaya Landscape by Anne Pike-Tay and David W. Anthony
Ch. 15 Archaeozoological Report on the Animal Bones from the Krasnosamarskoe Settlement by Pavel A. Kosintsev
Ch. 16 Human-Animal Relations at Krasnosamarskoe by Nerissa Russell, Audrey Brown, and Emmett Brown
Ch. 17 The Bronze Age Kurgan Cemetery at Krasnosamarskoe IV by Pavel F. Kuznetsov, Oleg D. Mochalov, and David W. Anthony
Ch. 18 Bronze Age Herding Camps: Survey and Excavations in Peschanyi Dol by David W. Anthony, Dorcas R. Brown, Pavel F. Kuznetsov, and Oleg D. Mochalov