A Bronze Age Landscape in the Russian Steppes

David W. Anthony is a professor and the chair of the anthropology department at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. He is the author of the bestselling book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Dorcas R. Brown is a research associate in anthropology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Aleksandr A. Khokhlov is the chair of the Anthropological Laboratory and an associate professor at the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities in Samara, Russia. Pavel F. Kuznetsov is the director of the Museum of the Volga Region and an associate professor at the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities in Samara, Russia. Oleg D. Mochalov is the rector of the Volga State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities in Samara, Russia.

Part I Introduction and Overview of the Samara Valley Project 1995-2002 Ch. 1 The Samara Valley Project and the Evolution of Pastoral Economies in the Western Eurasian Steppes by David W. Anthony Ch. 2 Archaeological Field Operations in the Lower Samara Valley, 1995-2001, with Observations on Srubnaya Pastoralism by David W. Anthony, Dorcas R. Brown, and Pavel F. Kuznetsov Part II History, Ecology, and Settlement Patterns in the Samara Oblast Ch. 3 Historic Records of the Economy and Ethnic History of the Samara Region by Oleg D. Mochalov, Dmitriy V. Romanov, and David W. Anthony Ch. 4 The Samara Valley in the Bronze Age: A Review of Archaeological Discoveries by Pavel F. Kuznetsov and Oleg D. Mochalov (Translated from Russian by David W. Anthony) Ch. 5 Paleoecological Evidence for Vegetation, Climate, and Land-Use Change in the Lower Samara River Valley by Laura M. Popova Part III Human Skeletal Studies Ch. 6 Demographic and Cranial Characteristics of the Volga-Ural Population in the Eneolithic and Bronze Age by Aleksandr A. Khokhlov Ch. 7 Stable Isotope Analysis of Neolithic to Late Bronze Age Populations in the Samara Valley by Rick J. Schulting and Michael P. Richards Ch. 8 A Bioarchaeological Study of Prehistoric Populations from the Volga Region by Eileen M. Murphy and Aleksandr A. Khokhlov Part IV Excavation and Specialist Reports for the Krasnosamarskoe Kurgan Cemetery and Settlement and the Herding Camps in Peschanyi Dol Ch. 9 The Geoarchaeology of the Krasnosamarskoe Sites by Arlene Miller Rosen Ch. 10 Excavations at the LBA Settlement at Krasnosamarskoe by David W. Anthony, Dorcas R. Brown, Pavel F. Kuznetsov, and Oleg D. Mochalov Ch. 11 Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Middle Volga by David L. Peterson, Peter Northover, Chris Salter, Blanca Maldonado, and David W. Anthony Ch. 12 Floral Data Analysis: Report on the Pollen and Macrobotanical Remains from the Krasnosamarskoe Settlement by Laura M. Popova Ch. 13 Phytoliths from the Krasnosamarskoe Settlement and Its Environment by Alison Weisskopf and Arlene Miller Rosen Ch. 14 Dog Days of Winter: Seasonal Activities in a Srubnaya Landscape by Anne Pike-Tay and David W. Anthony Ch. 15 Archaeozoological Report on the Animal Bones from the Krasnosamarskoe Settlement by Pavel A. Kosintsev Ch. 16 Human-Animal Relations at Krasnosamarskoe by Nerissa Russell, Audrey Brown, and Emmett Brown Ch. 17 The Bronze Age Kurgan Cemetery at Krasnosamarskoe IV by Pavel F. Kuznetsov, Oleg D. Mochalov, and David W. Anthony Ch. 18 Bronze Age Herding Camps: Survey and Excavations in Peschanyi Dol by David W. Anthony, Dorcas R. Brown, Pavel F. Kuznetsov, and Oleg D. Mochalov