The Andronovo and Saka cultures develop during the Bronze and Iron Age (2nd and 1st millennia BC) on the steppes of central Asia. During their history, they were first a semi-nomadic and sedentary societies, but then changed to a nomadic lifestyle across the vast area between the Caspian Sea and the East of modern China. It is within the framework of this vast geographical and historical context that we will present all of the available anthropological data (including the cases we have studied) that relates to the marks left by warfare. From our observations, we hope to determine whether human relations changed during the Bronze and the Iron Age in Central Asia. The Steppes are marked by the gradual establishment of a social hierarchy durin...
In the past ten years or more, social complexity has taken center stage as the focus of archaeologis...
After the peak period during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1800/1750 B.C.), around 1750 B.C. the O...
The Central-Asian "painted ware cultures" were developed during the second half of the 2nd millenniu...
This study focuses on the nature of social and economic interaction among Late Bronze Age (c.1800–15...
International audienceWealth finds strongly varying expression among the proto-historical societies ...
With their adapted offensive and defensive equipment revealed to us by texts (Greek, Latin, Iranian,...
While it has recently become clear that pastoral groups have varied economies, social systems, and m...
A variety of herd enclosures have been identified in the Near Eastern steppe for the Early Bronze. T...
International audienceThe Andronovo and Saka cultures (respectively Bronze and Iron Age) developed b...
In the past ten years or more, social complexity has taken center stage as the focus of archaeologis...
In the past ten years or more, social complexity has taken center stage as the focus of archaeologis...
After the peak period during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1800/1750 B.C.), around 1750 B.C. the O...
The Central-Asian "painted ware cultures" were developed during the second half of the 2nd millenniu...
This study focuses on the nature of social and economic interaction among Late Bronze Age (c.1800–15...
International audienceWealth finds strongly varying expression among the proto-historical societies ...
With their adapted offensive and defensive equipment revealed to us by texts (Greek, Latin, Iranian,...
While it has recently become clear that pastoral groups have varied economies, social systems, and m...
A variety of herd enclosures have been identified in the Near Eastern steppe for the Early Bronze. T...
International audienceThe Andronovo and Saka cultures (respectively Bronze and Iron Age) developed b...
In the past ten years or more, social complexity has taken center stage as the focus of archaeologis...
In the past ten years or more, social complexity has taken center stage as the focus of archaeologis...
After the peak period during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1800/1750 B.C.), around 1750 B.C. the O...
The Central-Asian "painted ware cultures" were developed during the second half of the 2nd millenniu...