TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hiebert,Fredrik T.
AU  - Adovasio,J.M.
AU  - Ermolova,N.M.
AU  - Forsten,Ann
AU  - Golyeva,Alexandra A.
AU  - Illingworth,J.S.
AU  - Kurbansakhatov,K.
AU  - Kurbansakhatov,Kakamurad
AU  - Lollekova,Ogul'sona
AU  - Miller,Naomi F.
AU  - Moore,K.M.
AU  - Moore,Katherine M.
AU  - Schmidt,Hubert
AU  - Warner,L.
TI  - A Central Asian Village at the Dawn of Civilization: Excavations at Anau, Turkmenistan 
SN  - 9781931707503
AV  - HT147.A783 H53 2003
U1  - 307.76/0958 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - History
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Villages
KW  - Middle Eastern
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface --; 1 Anau North, an Introduction --; 2 The Settlement History of Central Asia in the Village Period --; 3 The History of Investigations at Anau North --; 4 1997 Excavations: Context of Deposition and Stratigraphy --; 5 Radiocarbon Chronology --; 6 Ceramic Complexes of Anau North and Relative Chronology --; 7 Small Finds from Anau North --; 8 Architecture at Anau North --; 9 Burials --; 10 The Use of Plants at Anau North --; 11 Microscopic Analysis of Soils from Anau North --; 12 Animal Herding, Hunting, and the History of Animal Domestication at Anau depe --; 13 Prehistoric Behavior at Anau North --; 14 The Evolution of the Settlement at Anau North --; Appendix A 1904 Excavations at Anau North --; Appendix B Catalogue of Small Finds from the 1904 Excavations --; Appendix C Botanical Data from the 1997 Excavations --; Appendix D A Basketry/Textile Impression from Anau North --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This integration of earlier and new scholarship reconceptualizes the origins of civilization, challenging the received view that the ancient Near East spawned the spread of civilization outward from Mesopotamia to all other neighboring cultures. Central Asia is here shown to have been a major player in the development of cities.Skillfully documenting the different phases of both Soviet and earlier Western external analyses along with recent excavation results, this new interpretation reveals Central Asia's role in the socioeconomic and political processes linked to both the Iranian Plateau and the Indus Valley, showing how it contributed substantively to the origins of urbanism in the Old World. Hiebert's research at Anau and his focus on the Chalcolithic levels provide an essential starting point for understanding both the nature of village life and the historical trajectories that resulted in Bronze Age urbanism.University Museum Monograph, 116
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