The peoples of Inner Asia in the second half of the first millennium BC have long been considered to be nomads, engaging in warfare and conflict. This book, which presents the findings of new archaeological research in southeastern Kazakhstan, analyzes these findings to present important conclusions about the nature of Inner Asian society in this period. Pots, animal bones, ancient plant remains, and mudbricks are details from the material record proving that the ancient folk cultivated wheat, barley, and the two millets, and also husbanded sheep, goats, cattle, and horses. The picture presented is of societies which were more complex than heretofore understood: with an economic foundation based on both herding and farming, producing surplus agricultural goods which were exported, and with a hierarchical social structure, including elites and commoners, made cohesive by gift-giving, feasting, and tribute, rather than conflict and warfare. The book includes material on the impact of the first opening of the Silk Route by the Han
Contents
List of illustrations viii Acknowledgements x Preface xiv 1 Introduction 1 2 Natural and cultural landscapes of the Talgar alluvial fan: The natural landscape 13 3 Everyday lives in the Talgar settlements 39 4 Time, space, and demographic change in Talgar 77

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Chang, Claudia

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Psychology Press Ltd

Taylor and Francis

CRC Press

Asian States and Empires, First edition, London, 2017

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), Abingdon, Oxon, 2018

Asian states and empires, Abingdon, Oxon, 2018

Asian states and empires, 14, London, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Asian states and empires, S.l, 2019

1, 2017-08-31

1, PS, 2017

1, 2019

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- The time-honored problem of 'the nomad' -- Nomadic confederacy or polity on the Talgar fan -- The case study -- How I came to study Saka-Wusun settlements and the burial mounds of Talgar -- My premises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Natural and cultural landscapes of the Talgar alluvial fan: The natural landscape -- Cyclical climatic changes in the Late Holocene -- Human-environment interactions -- Cultural landscape of the Eurasian nomadic world of the First Millennium BC -- Saka kurgans and the nomadic world of eastern Inner Asia -- Burial complexes in Siberia, the Altai, and east Kazakhstan -- Semirech'ye: Bes Shatyr, Issyk, Turgen, and Talgar burial complexes -- Who were the Iron Age people of Talgar? -- Survey archaeology -- The chronological framework of the Talgar settlements -- Summary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Everyday lives in the Talgar settlements -- Settlement sites -- Faunal remains -- Plant remains -- Farming in the Talgar region -- Settled life: a comparison of the three settlement sites -- Crafting objects, crafting selves -- Animal husbandry in the Talgar region -- Milk, wool or hair, animal dung, and animal traction at Iron Age settlements -- Dairying -- Wool production -- Traction -- Horses as commodities -- Seasonality indicators from sheep teeth at the settlement of Tuzusai -- Hunting and fishing -- Feasting, rituals with animal sacrifice, and animals in burial contexts -- Scheduling, seasonality, and mixed herding and farming systems on the Talgar alluvial fan in the Middle to Late Iron Age -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Time, space, and demographic change in Talgar -- Chronological comparisons between the Semirech'ye Iron Age and the Chinese dynasties

"The peoples of Inner Asia in the second half of the first millennium BC have long been considered to be nomads, engaging in warfare and conflict. This book, which presents the findings of new archaeological research in southeastern Kazakhstan, analyzes these findings to present important conclusions about the nature of Inner Asian society in this period. Pots, animal bones, ancient plant remains, and mudbricks are details from the material record proving that the ancient folk cultivated wheat, barley, and the two millets, and also husbanded sheep, goats, cattle, and horses. The picture presented is of societies which were more complex than heretofore understood: with an economic foundation based on both herding and farming, producing surplus agricultural goods which were exported, and with a hierarchical social structure, including elites and commoners, made cohesive by gift-giving, feasting, and tribute, rather than conflict and warfare. The book includes material on the impact of the first opening of the Silk Route by the Han emperors of China."--Provided by publisher

Talgar's placement in larger geographical and historic contexts -- Semirech'ye -- Landscape, settlement, and burial mounds -- Human population growth on the Talgar fan -- The Tuzusai landscape -- Demography and agropastoralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Social organization in Talgar: Equality or hierarchy? -- Egalitarianism and social hierarchy in the nomadic world -- Social inequality and ranking at Talgar -- Interpretations of inequality at Talgar -- A model for Saka and Wusun sociopolitical structure on the Talgar fan -- The territorial imperative -- Talgar social organization and daily life -- Mobility, craft specialization, and social hierarchy -- Talgar archaeology and the big picture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. The place of the Talgar fan in the development of nomadic states and civilizations -- Agropastoral economy in Talgar -- Were Talgar agropastoralists part of a nomadic society or state? -- The nomadic trope and the modern nation state -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book presents the findings of new archaeological research in southeastern Kazakhstan, analyses these findings to present important conclusions about the nature of Inner Asian society in this period. The picture presented is of societies which were more complex than heretofore understood.

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