Date of Award
Spring 5-15-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Jeffrey Glover
Second Advisor
Bryan Hanks
Third Advisor
Zachary Hruby
Abstract
The following paper focuses on the transitional period between the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Southern Urals, Russia. GIS-based analysis of Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Kyzil Area points to a number of important findings. The study concludes the demographic impossibility of an autonomous development scenario of the Sintashta – Srubnaya-Alakul cultural transformation, rejects the presence of ‘proto-city’ or urbanization developments in the region during the Bronze Age, and points to the shift to a more collective form of control over natural resources during the LBA period. The study also examines the spatial distribution of ‘kurgan’ cemeteries in the area. Among other things, this thesis illustrates how settlement pattern studies can add to and complement the heavily burial data - driven research, often relied upon in the archaeological analysis of the Eurasian Steppes.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1958891
Recommended Citation
sharapov, denis, "Middle Bronze Age- Late Bronze Age Transitions in the Southern Urals (Russia). Case Study: Shifts in Settlement Patterns in the Kyzil Area, Chelyabinsk District.." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1958891