Book Review: A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project

Reviewed: A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project . DAVID W. ANTHONY , DORCAS R. BROWN , ALEKSANDR A. KHOKHLOV , PAVEL F. KUZNETSOV , and OLEG D. MOCHALOV , editors. 2016. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press , Los Angeles, California . xxi + 513 pp. 100 color photo...

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Published inAmerican Antiquity Vol. 82; no. 3; p. 617
Main Author Giblin, Julia I
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Cambridge University Press 01.07.2017
Subjects
Archaeology
Bronze Age
Collaboration
Dependency theory
Excavation
Farming
Grasslands
Livestock
Paleobotany
Russia
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Summary:Reviewed: A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes: The Samara Valley Project . DAVID W. ANTHONY , DORCAS R. BROWN , ALEKSANDR A. KHOKHLOV , PAVEL F. KUZNETSOV , and OLEG D. MOCHALOV , editors. 2016. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press , Los Angeles, California . xxi + 513 pp. 100 color photos, 100 figures, 154 tables. $89.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-938770-05-0 .This monograph provides a final report and synthesis of the multiyear, international Samara Valley Project (SVP). It is a must read for scholars interested in the evolution of steppe pastoralism during the Eurasian Bronze Age, and for those interested in exploring variability in prehistoric herding practices more broadly.
ISSN:0002-7316
2325-5064
DOI:10.1017/aaq.2017.23