Kurgan Studies

An environmental and archaeological multiproxy study of burial mounds in the Eurasian steppe zone

£91.00
Editors:
Ákos Peto and Attila Barczi
Publication Year:
2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407308029
Paperback:
365pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white
ISBN 10:
1407308025
BAR number:
S2238
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This volume presents a series of archaeological and scientific studies focusing on Kurgans in Hungary and Russia. Kurgans are the burial mounds of Bronze and Copper Age societies that can be traced back to the 4th Millennium cal BC. The Kurgans of the Eurasian steppe zone preserve palaeosoils and represent a fantastic resource for investigating Holocene environmental changes. The studies presented in this volume principally focus on the Lyukas-halom and Csípő-halom kurgans in Hungary and the Skvortsovskyand Labazovsky kurgans in Russia, though there are also several papers that explore the 'wider world' of the Kurgans. On the whole, this volume brings together papers on a multi- and interdisciplinary scale, and sheds light on the current status and state-of-art of kurgan studies.