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The Surrounding Bronze Age World: Kazakhstan and South Siberia, 1300–700 BC

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Chapter 6 broadens the perspective on Late and Final Bronze Age Inner Asia by considering the archaeology of central and eastern Kazakhstan and South Siberia with a focus on the Minusinsk Basin and Tuva. I compare and contextualize the Mongolian record with research from these surrounding areas in order to demonstrate the importance of contacts and networks between them. The western and northwestern interaction spheres of Inner Asia are key to understanding many of the processes transpiring in Mongolia and especially in the region of west-central Mongolia (i.e., Khovsgol and Arkhangai provinces). I pay special attention to differences in diet and mobility across these regions and analyze the emergence of Inner Asian “horse culture” during the early first millennium BC.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A single exception to this may be a horse decorated ring from the cemetery of Mynshunkur which likely dates to the mid-second millennium BC (Kuz’mina 2007: 177).

  2. 2.

    See Jacobson-Tepfer 2012 for a different perspective exploring the importance of chariot symbolism as opposed to their actual presence and frequent use.

  3. 3.

    See Linduff (1997), Novgorodova (1989), Erdenebaatar (2004) for notable exceptions.

  4. 4.

    This assumes that the Urt Bulag central mound and satellites were the outcome of a more or less synchronic event, about which there are differing opinions (see chapter five). The radiocarbon results from four satellite features are 1040–850 BC, 975–680 BC, 980–770 BC, and 970–780 BC (95 % probability) (Fitzhugh 2009b: 399; Allard and Erdenebaatar 2005: 5).

  5. 5.

    Here, I draw on the geographical division of the early Scythian period of the Altai into Biike and Maiemir cultural regions as suggested by Tishkin (2003, 2011).

  6. 6.

    Interestingly, this is not the case for the Minusinsk Basin where horse ritualism in mortuary contexts was not much emphasized even though the same harnessing technology is clearly present based on surface finds (Bokovenko 2006).

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Honeychurch, W. (2015). The Surrounding Bronze Age World: Kazakhstan and South Siberia, 1300–700 BC. In: Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1815-7_6

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