From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The archaeology and anthropology of northern Eurasia tends to proceed from its filleting into three massive continent-spanning strips—the terrestrial biomes of the steppe, the taiga, and the tundra—with certain nods to the gradations between them, other vegetation communities biting in from the south, and the separate world of its marine fringes. This session brings together researchers of Mongolia, steppic and montane Central Asia, Siberia, and maritime Northeast Asia to break well out of this conventional siloing. With perspectives and toolkits spanning monumental iconography, genome-wide ancient DNA, textile analysis, historical linguistics, osteoarchaeology, ceramic geochemistry, and beyond, we highlight both the diversity of practices and trajectories accommodated within each zone and shared inheritances and channels of connection that cut far across ecologies and latitudes. In grasslands, uplands, boreal forests, wetlands, and the shores of cold seas, we draw out the heterogeneity, surprising parallels, crackling interfaces, and repeatedly refreshed links that have enmeshed this vast region for millennia.
Other Keywords
Bronze Age •
Trade and exchange •
ancient DNA •
Zooarchaeology •
Landscape Archaeology •
Neolithic •
Monumentality •
Iron Age •
Iconography and epigraphy •
Migration
Geographic Keywords
Asia (Continent) •
Kyrgyz Republic (Country) •
Republic of Azerbaijan (Country) •
Republic of Uzbekistan (Country) •
State of Kuwait (Country) •
Turkmenistan (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Country) •
Republic of Tajikistan (Country) •
Republic of Kazakhstan (Country) •
Japan (Country)
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- Documents (14)
- Ancient Mongolian Aurochs Genomes Reveal Connections to East Asian Cattle (2023)
- Bronze Age Transitions in Their Own Words: Central Asian Interfaces (2023)
- Deer Stones and the Bronze to Iron Age Transition in Mongolia (2023)
- The Delgerkhaan uul Survey: Preliminary Results (2023)
- Examining Bronze Age Kinship and Community Patterning in the Southern Urals, Russian Federation, through aDNA Study (2023)
- Following the Felt: Object Trajectories and Gendered Social Networks in Contemporary Western Mongolia (2023)
- Identifying Animal Management Strategies in Pre-domestication Contexts (2023)
- Imperial Impact: Population Dynamics and Political Landscapes of Inner Asia under the First Steppe Empire (2023)
- Laying Down with Dogs: The Role of Canis familiaris in Mongolia and Transbaikal during the Xiongnu Period (2023)
- Melting Ice, High-Altitude Hunting, and Horse Use in the Mongolian Altai (2023)
- Metallurgy, Shamanism, and Ideographic Currency in Bering Strait: Scythian Descent? (2023)
- Monuments in Bronze Age Mongolian Kinscapes (2023)
- Pre-Colonial Hokkaido and East Asian Trade: Exchange and Identity Formation of the Okhotsk Culture (2023)
- Sowing the Seeds of Empire: New Insights into Xiongnu Agriculture and Agronomy (2023)