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It sets the Pazyryk Culture into the landscape using recent studies
on climate, technology, human and animal DNA, and local resources.
It shows that this was a powerful, semi-sedentary, interdependent
group with contacts in Eurasia to their west, and to their east in
Mongolia and south in China.
It sets the Pazyryk Culture into the landscape using recent studies
on climate, technology, human and animal DNA, and local resources.
It shows that this was a powerful, semi-sedentary, interdependent
group with contacts in Eurasia to their west, and to their east in
Mongolia and south in China.
Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender
on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are
archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and
eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research
in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of
gender roles in ancient-or modern-pastoralist societies, this book
helps to fill an empty niche in our understanding of how sexual
roles and identities have shaped and been shaped by such social and
cultural circumstances. Are All Warriors Male? is a groundbreaking
work that challenges current conceptions about the development of
human societies in this great cauldron of humanity.
The roles of women in Chinese archaeology, with only a few
exceptions, have at worst been overlooked, and at best consigned to
conventional Marxist theory that prescribes formulaic frameworks
for understanding gender - until now. Renowned archaeologist
Katheryn M. Linduff and fellow researcher Yan Sun have brought
together a fascinating collection that reexamines gender in ancient
Chinese cultures. Acknowledging and negotiating the complications
that challenge their efforts, the authors analyze and begin to
reconstruct the roles of women in various regions of China from the
late Neolithic to the early Empire period. Topics range from
mortuary ritual, social status and structures of power, economic
influences on cultural practice, textile production, and art in
these early Chinese societies. This book is a must for students,
professors, and practitioners of archaeology that seek a more
complete examination of the archaeological record, for scholars in
the fields of Asian Studies, Art History, and Chinese History more
generally, as well as for those interested in the roles of women in
ancient Chinese society.
This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of
early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China
and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China
Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. This area was a
frontier, an ambiguous space that lay at the margins of direct
political control by the metropolitan states, where local and
colonial ideas and practices were reconstructed transculturally.
These identities were often merged and displayed in material
culture. Types of objects, styles, and iconography were often
hybrids or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages in which
they were deposited and found. Patrons commissioned objects that
marked a symbolic vision of place and person and that could
mobilize support, legitimize rule, and bind people together.
Through close examination of key artifacts, this book untangles the
considerable changes in political structure and cultural makeup of
ancient Chinese states and their northern neighbors.
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