Social complexity in prehistoric Eurasia : monuments, metals, and mobility / edited by Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : reconsidering steppe social complexity within world prehistory / Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M. Linduff -- Framing complexity. Introduction / Ludmila Koryakova ; Differentiated landscapes and non-uniform complexity among Bronze Age societies of the Eurasian steppe / Michael D. Frachetti ; The Sintashta genesis : the roles of climate change, warfare, and long-distance trade / David W. Anthony ; Settlements and cemeteries of the Bronze Age of the Urals : the potential for reconstructing early social dynamics / Andrei V. Epimakhov ; The Maikop singularity : the unequal accumulation of wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe? / Philip L. Kohl -- Mining, metallurgy, and trade. Introduction / Katheryn M. Linduff ; Formation of the Eurasian steppe belt cultures : viewed through the lens of archaeometallurgy and radiocarbon dating / Evgenii N. Chernykh ; Late prehistoric mining, metallurgy, and social organization in north central Eurasia / Bryan K. Hanks ; The bronze-using cultures in the northern frontier of Ancient China and the metallurgies of Ancient Dian area in Yunnan Province / Rubin Han and Xiaocen Li ; Production and social complexity : Bronze Age metalworking in the Middle Volga / David L. Peterson ; Early metallurgy and socio-cultural complexity : archaeological discoveries in northwest China / Jianjun Mei -- Frontiers and border dynamics. Introduction / Thomas Barfield ; Violence on the frontiers? Sources of power and socio-poilicital change at the easternmost parts of the Eurasian steppe during the late second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach ; First-millennium BCE beifang artifacts as historical documents / Emma C. Bunker ; Blurring the boundaries : foragers and pastoralists in the Volga-Urals region / Laura M.S. Popova -- Social power, monumentality, and mobility. Introduction / Francis Allard ; Re-writing monumental landscapes as inner Asian political process / William Honeychurch, Joshua Wright, and Chunag Amartuvshin ; Socially integrative facilities and the emergence of societal complexity on the Mongolian steppe / Jean-Luc Houle ; Pre-Scythian ceremonialism, deer stone art, and cultural intesification in northern Mongolia / William W. Fitzhugh.

Through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns ranging from monument construction and use and production and consumption of metals to the nature of mobility among societies, the essays in this volume provide the most up-to-date thinking on social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia.