A bronze age landscape in the Russian steppes the Samara Valley Project
"The Samara Valley Project (SVP) was a US-Russian archaeological investigation in the steppes east of Samara, Russia between 1995 and 2002. This 21-author volume is the project's final report. It describes the changing organization and subsistence resources of pastoral steppe economies fro...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Los Angeles, California
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Monumenta archaeologica
volume 37 |
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Samara Valley Project
> Geschichte 4500 v.Chr.-1200 v.Chr.
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
> Archäologie
> Funde
> Geschichte
> Bronze age
> Srubna culture
> Andronovo culture
> Steppe archaeology
> Pastoral systems
> History
> Landscape archaeology
> Excavations (Archaeology)
> Weidewirtschaft
> Siedlung
> Samara Region (Russia)
> Antiquities
> Volga River Region (Russia)
> Samara-Gebiet
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The Samara Valley Project (SVP) was a US-Russian archaeological investigation in the steppes east of Samara, Russia between 1995 and 2002. This 21-author volume is the project's final report. It describes 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 (Timber-Grave) and Andronovo cultures (1900-1200 BC). We excavated a permanently occupied Srubnaya domestic residence at Krasnosamarskoe dated about 1900-1700 BC and a series of contemporaneous seasonal Srubnaya herding camps. This is the first English-language monograph that describes seasonal and permanent LBA settlements in the Russian steppes. We analyze economic resources (wild and domesticated plants and animals, copper mining and metallurgy) and their seasonal exploitation, supplemented by human biological data from Eneolithic-through-Bronze Age pathologies related to diet, health, and activities, as well as dietary stable isotopes, cranio-facial measurements, and ancient DNA. Three important discoveries were that agriculture played no role in the LBA diet across the region, a surprise given the settled residential pattern; second that a winter ritual involving dog and wolf sacrifices, possibly related to male initiation ceremonies, occurred uniquely at Krasnosamarskoe; and third that 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XXI, 513 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781938770050 978-1-938770-05-0 |