The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia (Cambridge World Archaeology (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 06 April 2009
- Format: Paperback 322 pages
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- Categories: European History | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Archaeology By Period / Region | Prehistoric Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780521130158 ISBN 10: 0521130158
- Sales rank: 418,786
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Reviews for The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
Excellent introduction to unexplored (pre-)history
This is another excellent book in the Cambridge World Archaeology Series. The author not only gives a fascinating account of the civilisations of Central Asia from about 4500 BC to the dawn of the Iron Age, but also discusses interesting aspects of the debates in archaeology itself, such as how societies change and why different national 'schools' of archaeology focus on different explanations for the evidence they find. For me, a non-expert, the highlight of the book was to realise that so much has been discovered about societies that do not feature in most people's conception of ancient, or pre-history, particularly the cultures of Ukraine, the Caucasus and Turkmenistan.
The illustrations are varied and each chapter ends with a short pen-portrait of a famous Russian or Central Asian archaeologist. The maps are a perhaps little repetitive and don't always seem to be a great help to the reader, but generally this is an extremely interesting and well thought-out book. by George Seel
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