Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session seeks to highlight the wide array of innovations in recent scholarship of the prehistory of eastern Eurasia. Any attempt to parse the complexity and variable scale of the social, biogeographical, ecological, and historical dynamics that interdependently shaped the archaeological record of eastern Eurasia requires continual development of practice and theory as well as the synthesis of many regional perspectives. With this in mind we provide a forum that puts scholars working across a range of regions, timespans, theoretical approaches, and methods into broader conversation. Topics include multispecies perspectives, trade and exchange, mobilities, paleoecology and human-environmental reconstruction, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, spatial analysis, monumentality, biomolecular applications, metallurgical technologies, osteoarchaeology, foodways, and more. Here we feature research that highlights new archaeological case studies, new theoretical directions, and new analytical techniques. From the grassy expanses of the steppe to the back shelves of institutional collections, this session explores recent developments in the archaeology of eastern Eurasia and provides a window into the state of the field.