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Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse / edited by Marsha Levine, Colin Renfrew & Katie Boyle.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, ©2003.
Descriptionxii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorLevine, Marsha (Marsha Ann)
Other author/creatorRenfrew, Colin, 1937-
Other author/creatorBoyle, Katherine V.
Other author/creatorMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Series McDonald Institute monographs
McDonald Institute monographs. ^A691838
Contents Focusing on central Eurasian archaeology: East meets West / Marsha Levine -- Steppe and forest-steppe belt of Eurasia: Holocene environmental history / Konstantin V. Kremenetski -- Green grows the steppe: how can grassland ecology increase our understanding of human-plant interactions and the origins of agriculture? / Mim A. Bower -- Organic residue analysis of lipids in potsherds from the early Neolithic settlement of Botai, Kazakhstan / Stephanie N. Dudd, Richard P. Evershed, & Marsha Levine -- Eneolithic horse rituals and riding in the steppes: new evidence / David W. Anthony & Dorcus R. Brown -- Horse exploitation in the Kazakh steppes during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age / Norbert Benecke & Angela von den Driesch -- The exploitation of horses at Botai, Kazakhstan / Sandra L. Olsen -- Geomorphological and micromorphological investigations of palaeosols, valley sediments, and a sunken-floored dwelling at Botai, Kazakhstan / Charly French & Maria Kousoulakou -- A note on the early evidence for horse in western Asia / Joan Oates -- Were the donkeys at Tell Brak (Syria) harnessed with a bit? / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- Equids in the northern part of the Iranian central plateau from the Neolithic to Iron Age: new zoogeographic evidence / Marjan Mashkour -- A walk on the wild side: late Shang appropriation of horses in China / Kathryn M. Linduff -- The horse in late prehistoric China: wresting culture and control from the 'barbarians' / Victor H. Mair -- Horseback riding: man's access to speed? / Ute Luise Dietz -- Origins of pastoralism in the Eurasian steppes / Elena E. Kuzmina -- The horse and the wheel: the dialects of change in the circum-Pontic region and adjacent areas, 4500-1500 BC / Andrew Sherratt -- The importance of fish in the diet of central Eurasian peoples from the Mesolithic to the early Iron Age / Tamsin O'Connell, Marsha Levine & Robert Hedges -- Correlations between agriculture and pastoralism in the northern Pontic steppe area during the Bronze Age / Kateryna P. Bunyatyan -- Palaeoethnobotanical evidence of agriculture in the steppe and the forest-steppe of east Europe in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age / Galina Pashkevich -- First cattle-breeders of the Azov-Pontic steppes / Volodymyr N. Stanko -- Farmers and pastoralists of the Pontic lowland during the late Bronze Age / Yakov P. Gershkovich -- The economic perculiarities of the Srubnaya cultural-historical entity / Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko -- Srubnaya fauna and beyond: a critical assessment of the archaezoological information from the east European steppe / Arturo Morales Muįz & Ekaterina Antipina -- Yamnaya culture pastoral exploitation: a local sequence / Natalia I. Shishlina -- Problems of inhabiting central Eurasia: Mesolithic-Eneolithic exploitation of the central Eurasian steppes / Gerald Matyushin -- The steppes of the Urals and Kazakhstan during the late Bronze Age / Svetlana Zdanovich.
General notePapers from a symposium, Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe, Cambridge University, January 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004381019
ISBN1902937090

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