Imperial Impact: Population Dynamics and Political Landscapes of Inner Asia under the First Steppe Empire

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper integrates survey, mortuary, and genetic research into a multidisciplinary and multiscalar consideration of the impact that large political regimes like empires have on the social landscapes of individual communities and whole regions. In the case of the first steppe empire of Inner Asia (Xiongnu), while material accoutrements of political culture became increasingly homogenous across vast areas of the steppe, constituents of local communities became increasingly intermixed and their respective locales were reorganized into new regional hierarchies that fed into the supra-regional polity.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37334.0