Beyond the Steppe And the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology (Colloquia Pontica) (Colloquia Pontica)

In this collection of 29 articles, leading researchers and a generation of new scholars join together in questioning the dominant opposing dichotomy in Eurasian archaeology of the ‘steppe and sown,’ while forging new approaches which integrate local and global visions of ancient culture and society in the steppe, mountain, desert and maritime coastal regions of Eurasia. This ground-breaking volume demonstrates the success of recently established international research programs and challenges readers with a wide variety of fresh new perspectives. The articles are conveniently divided into four sections on Local and Global Perspectives, Regional Studies, New Directions in Theory and Practice, and Paleoecology and Environment, and cover a broad period from the Copper Age to early Mediaeval times in the Independent States of the former USSR, as well as Turkey, China and Mongolia. CONTENTS 6 PREFACE 12 INTRODUCTION DAVID L. PETERSON, LAURA M. POPOVA AND ADAM T. SMITH 14 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 16 LIST OF FIGURES 18 I. LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 26 CHAPTER ONE THE EARLY INTEGRATION OF THE EURASIAN STEPPES WITH THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: MOVEMENTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA --- PHILIP L. KOHL 28 CHAPTER TWO THREE DEADLY SINS IN STEPPE ARCHAEOLOGY: CULTURE, MIGRATION AND ARYANS1 --- DAVID W. ANTHONY 65 CHAPTER THREE GENERAL MIGRATION PROCESSES IN THE ARAL SEA AREA IN THE EARLY IRON AGE --- LEONID T. YABLONSKY 88 II. REGIONAL STUDIES 112 CHAPTER FOUR COMMUNITY ORGANISATION AMONG COPPER AGE SEDENTARY HORSE PASTORALISTS OF KAZAKHSTAN --- SANDRA OLSEN, BRUCE BRADLEY, DAVID MAKI AND ALAN OUTRAM 113 CHAPTER FIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CHALCOLITHIC TURKMENISTAN: THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL IN THE KOPET DAG --- LAUREN ZYCH 137 CHAPTER SIX THE DZHUNGAR MOUNTAINS ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT: RECONSTRUCTING BRONZE AGE LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN KAZAKHSTAN --- MICHAEL D. FRACHETTI 147 CHAPTER SEVEN THE KURA-ARAXES 'CULTURE' IN THE NORTH-EASTERN CAUCASUS: PROBLEMS IN ITS IDENTIFICATION AND CHRONOLOGY --- RABADAN MAGOMEDOV 167 CHAPTER EIGHT THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT PATTERN OF THE EASTERN ANATOLIAN HIGH PLATEAU IN LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE --- AYNUR ÖZFIRAT 185 CHAPTER NINE BEFORE ARGISHTI: THE ROOTS OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES IN CAUCASIA. NOTES FROM THE TSAKAHOVIT PLAIN, ARMENIA --- ADAM T. SMITH 197 CHAPTER TEN SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA: THE STRUCTURE OF INTRA-REGIONAL NOMADIC ORGANISATION --- WILLIAM HONEYCHURCH AND CHUNAG AMARTUVSHIN 208 CHAPTER ELEVEN RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE KHANUY RIVER VALLEY, CENTRAL MONGOLIA --- FRANCIS ALLARD, DIIMAAJAV ERDENEBAATAR AND JEAN-LUC HOULE 227 III. NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 250 CHAPTER TWELVE BETWEEN THE STEPPE AND THE SOWN: PREHISTORIC SINOP AND INTER-REGIONAL INTERACTION ALONG THE BLACK SEA COAST --- ALEXANDER A. BAUER 252 CHAPTER THIRTEEN OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND THROUGH THE GRASS: VISUAL INFORMATION AS 'TEXT' FOR THE 'TEXTLESS' --- KAREN S. RUBINSON 272 CHAPTER FOURTEEN INNOVATION, CHANGE, CONTINUITY: CONSIDERING THE AGENCY OF RUSA II IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF URARTU IN THE 7TH CENTURY BC --- TUĞBA TANYERI-ERDEMIR 289 CHAPTER FIFTEEN SEQUENCES OF SIGNS: EURASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL SEMIOTICS GREGORY E. ARESHIAN 307 CHAPTER SIXTEEN WRITING THE LANDSCAPE: PETROGLYPHS OF INNER MONGOLIA AND NINGXIA PROVINCE (CHINA) --- PAOLA DEMATTÈ 321 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN REFINING THE DEFINITION OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOUTHERN ZONE OF THE CIRCUMPONTIC METALLURGICAL PROVINCE: COPPER ALLOYS IN ARMENIA DURING THE EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE --- LAURA A. TEDESCO 335 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE SAMARA BRONZE AGE METALS PROJECT: INVESTIGATING CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN EURASIAN STEPPES --- DAVID L. PETERSON, PAVEL F. KUZNETSOV AND OLEG D. MOCHALOV, WITH A BRIEF APPENDIX BY AUDREY G. BROWN AND EMMETT BROWN 347 CHAPTER NINETEEN UNDERSTANDING THE PRODUCTIVE ECONOMY DURING THE BRONZE AGE THROUGH ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL AND PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AT KARGALY (SOUTHERN URALS, ORENBURG, RUSSIA) --- PEDRO DÍAZ DEL RÍO, PILAR LÓPEZ GARCÍA, JOSE ANTONIO LÓPEZ SÁEZ, M. ISABEL MARTINEZ NAVARRETE, ANGEL L. RODRÍGUEZ ALCALDE, SALVADOR ROVIRA-LLORENS, JUAN M. VICENT GARCÍA AND IGNACIO DE ZAVALA MORENCOS 368 CHAPTER TWENTY WHY HAVE SIBERIAN ARTEFACTS BEEN EXCAVATED WITHIN ANCIENT CHINESE DYNASTIC BORDERS? --- KATHERYN M. LINDUFF 383 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE SENSING THE SHADOW EMPIRE: NEW APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEM OF THE KHAZAR STATE --- IRINA R. SHINGIRAY 396 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO RECENT XERORADIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF KURA-ARAXES CERAMICS MARYFRAN HEINSCH AND PAMELA VANDIVER 407 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST AND CULTURAL INTERACTION IN PREHISTORIC EURASIA IN LIGHT OF CERAMIC STUDIES --- IRINA S. ZHUSHCHIKHOVSKAYA 420 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR TRADE CERAMICS FROM BOHAI SITES OF RUSSIAN PRIMOR'E --- EVGENIA I. GELMAN 436 IV. PALAEO-ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT 448 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE MEDITERRANEAN AGRICULTURE IN SOUTH-WESTERN CRIMEA: PALAEO-ENVIRONMENTS AND EARLY ADAPTATIONS CARLOS E. CORDOVA AND PAUL H. LEHMAN 450 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA STEPPE BETWEEN THE ENEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE: MIGRATIONS OR ECONOMIC CHANGES? YURI RASSAMAKIN 473 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN PASTORALISM DURING THE LATE BRONZE AGE IN RUSSIA: PAST INTERPRETATIONS AND NEW GOALS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH --- LAURA M. POPOVA 484 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT EARLY MARITIME ADAPTATION ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF THE FAR EAST OF RUSSIA IN ANCIENT TIMES --- ALEXANDER N. POPOV AND DAVID R. YESNER 494 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE PAN-REGIONAL INTERACTION VS ECOLOGICALLY INDUCED CHANGE: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RAPID TRANSITION FROM THE LATE NEOLITHIC ERA TO THAT OF PALAEOMETAL AMONG MARITIME POPULATIONS OF THE PRIMOR'E REGION OF THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST --- JIM CASSIDY AND NINA A. KONONENKO 502 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 518 INDEX 526 DumpedBookmarks