International audienceWealth finds strongly varying expression among the proto-historical societies of Central Asia, both from a diachronic (Bronze vs. Iron Ages) as well as from a geographical point of view (northern steppe zone vs. southern oasis zone). A comparative approach using such parameters as architecture, funerary practices and use of land, one can outline some interpretations about the evolution of the notion of wealth and highlight common or singular features among the relevant cultures. In the Oxus Bronze Age civilization as well as among the Saka of the Iron Age steppes, wealth finds expression through possession of prestige goods and display, which marks economic, social, if not political, inequality (rich/poor; male/female;...
Applying the rather traditional method of constructing a wealth index based on grave goods and grave...
International audienceThe city-state civilization of Early Bronze Age Southern Mésopotamie generally...
This thesis develops a general anthropological framework through which factors underlying the emerge...
International audienceWealth finds strongly varying expression among the proto-historical societies ...
The “handmade painted ware” cultures made their appearance in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan...
The Andronovo and Saka cultures develop during the Bronze and Iron Age (2nd and 1st millennia BC) on...
The Central-Asian "painted ware cultures" were developed during the second half of the 2nd millenniu...
A variety of herd enclosures have been identified in the Near Eastern steppe for the Early Bronze. T...
International audienceThe disappearance of the Oxus Civilization in southern Central Asia in the mid...
After the peak period during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1800/1750 B.C.), around 1750 B.C. the O...
International audienceKnown after nearly a century of Soviet research, the Early Iron Age “handmade ...
National audienceThe Bronze Age cultures have long been arduous for archaeologists to determine beca...
Applying the rather traditional method of constructing a wealth index based on grave goods and grave...
International audienceThe city-state civilization of Early Bronze Age Southern Mésopotamie generally...
This thesis develops a general anthropological framework through which factors underlying the emerge...
International audienceWealth finds strongly varying expression among the proto-historical societies ...
The “handmade painted ware” cultures made their appearance in Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan...
The Andronovo and Saka cultures develop during the Bronze and Iron Age (2nd and 1st millennia BC) on...
The Central-Asian "painted ware cultures" were developed during the second half of the 2nd millenniu...
A variety of herd enclosures have been identified in the Near Eastern steppe for the Early Bronze. T...
International audienceThe disappearance of the Oxus Civilization in southern Central Asia in the mid...
After the peak period during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100-1800/1750 B.C.), around 1750 B.C. the O...
International audienceKnown after nearly a century of Soviet research, the Early Iron Age “handmade ...
National audienceThe Bronze Age cultures have long been arduous for archaeologists to determine beca...
Applying the rather traditional method of constructing a wealth index based on grave goods and grave...
International audienceThe city-state civilization of Early Bronze Age Southern Mésopotamie generally...
This thesis develops a general anthropological framework through which factors underlying the emerge...