Regional Specifics in Light of Global Models BC Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium. Volume 1: Ethnos, Language, Culture; General Problems; Studying Statistics; Studying Sintashta; The Eneolithic and Bronze Ages (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, Number 45) [Paperback]

Karlene Jones-Bley (Editor), D. G. Zdanovich (Editor)

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• Publisher: The Institute for the Study of Man; 1ST edition (2002)
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This review is from: Regional Specifics in Light of Global Models BC Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium. Volume 1: Ethnos, Language, Culture; General Problems; Studying Statistics; Studying Sintashta; The Eneolithic and Bronze Ages (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, Number 45) (Paperback)

Introductions by Karlene Jones-Bley and D.G. Zdanovich. I. COMPLEX SOCIETIES OF CENTRAL EURASIA-ETHNOS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE: Colin Renfrew: The Indo-European Problem and the Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppes-Questions of Time Depth; E.E. Kuzmina: Ethnic and Cultural Interconnections between Iran and Turan in the 2nd Millennium BC; Vyacheslav Vs. Ivanov: Towards A Possible Linguistic Interpretation of the Arkaim-Sintashta Discoveries; I.V. Pyankov: Arkaim and the Indo-Iranian Var; A.P. Medvedev: Avestan "Yima's Town" in Historical and Archaeological Perspective; Karlene Jones-Bley: Indo-European Burial, the "Rig Veda," and "Avesta"; L.T. Yablonsky: Archaeological Mythology and Some Real Problems of the Current Archaeology. II. COMPLEX SOCIETIES OF CENTRAL EURASIA-GENERAL PROBLEMS: L.N. Koryakova: Social Landscape of Central Eurasia in the Bronze and Iron Ages-Tendencies, Factors, and Limits of Transformation. III. COMPLEX SOCIETIES OF CENTRAL EURASIA-STUDING SINTASHTA: G.B. ZDANOVICH AND I.M. BATANINA: Planography of the Fortified Centers of the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Trans-Urals according to Aerial Photography Data; A.V. Epimakhov: Complex Societies and the Possibilities to Diagnose them on the Basis of Archaeological Data: Sintashta Type Sites of the Middle Bronze Age of the Trans-Urals; A.V. Epimakhov: The Sintashta Culture and the Indo-European Problem; T.S. Malyutina: "Proto-towns" of the Bronze Age in the South Urals and Ancient Khorasmia; R.A. Litvinenko: On the Problem of Chronological Correlation between Sintashta Type and MRC Sites; V.N. Logvin: The Cemetery of Bestamak and the Structure of the Community; D.G. Zdanovich and L.L. Gayduchenko: Sintashta Burial Sacrifice-The Bolshekaragansky Cemetery in Focus; P.A. Kosintsev: Animals in the Burial Rite of the Population of the Volga-Ural Area in the Beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC. IV. COMPLEX SOCIETIES OF CENTRAL EURASIA-THE ENEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES: N.L. Morgunova: Yamnaya (Pit-Grave) Culture in the South Urals Area; T.M. Potemkina: The Trans-Ural Eneolithic Sanctuaries with Astronomical Reference Points in a System of Similar Eurasian Models; V.T. Kovalyova and O.V. Ryzhkova: Circular Settlements in the Lower Tobal Area (Tashkovo Culture); I.I. Dryomov The Regional Differences of the Prestige Bronze Ages Burials (Peculiarities of the Pokrovsk Group); N.M. Malov: Spears-Signs of Archaic Leaders of the Pokrovsk Archaeological Culture; A.N. Usachuk: Regional Peculiarities of Technology of the Shield Cheekpiece Production (Based on the Materials of the Middle Don, Volga, and South Urals); Index to Volumes 1 & 2.