The Archaeology of Power and Politics in

For thousands of years, the geography of Eurasia has facilitated travel, conquest, and colonization by various groups, from the Huns in ancient times to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the past century. This book brings together archaeological investigations of Eurasian regimes and revolutions ranging from the Bronze Age to the modern day, from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in the west to the Mongolian steppe and the Korean Peninsula in the east. The authors examine a wide-ranging series of archaeological studies in order to better understand the role of politics in the history and prehistory of the region. This book reevaluates the significance of power, authority, and ideology in the emergence and transformation of ancient and modern societies in this vast continent.

Introduction: regimes, revolutions, and the materiality of power in Eurasian archaeology
The Rhetoric of Regime and Ideology of Revolution
Archaeology and the national idea in Eurasia
National history and identity narratives in China and cultural heritage interpretation in Xinjiang
'Yerevan, my ancient Erebuni': archaeological repertoires, public assemblages, and the manufacture of a (post-)Soviet nation
Violence and power visualized: representations of military engagements between Central Asia and the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Public vs. private: perspectives on the communication of power in ancient Chroasmia
Lines of power: equality or hierarchy among the Iron Age agro-pastoralists of southeastern Kazakhstan
Materialities of Homeland, Practices of Expansion
Homelands in the present and in the past: political implications of a dangerous concept
Processes and practices of death: toward a bioarchaeology of dynamic societies
Ritualization of weapons in a contact zone: between the past and the present
Ethos, materiality, and paradigms of political action in early medieval communities of the northwestern Caspian region Irina
Legitimacy and control: the making of the imperial Liao heartland
A bioarchaeological study of Xiongnu expansion in Iron Age Tuva, South Siberia
Regimes of the Body, Revolutions of Value
Kazakhstan, post-socialist transition, and the problem of multiple materialities
Forging social networks: metallurgy and the politics of value in Bronze Age Eurasia
Where pottery and politics meet: mundane objects and complex political life in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus
Forming techniques and Kura-Araxes period pottery in the Eastern Caucasus
Beastly goods: pastoral production in the Late Bronze Age Tsaghkahovit Plain
From regimes to revolutions: technology and technique at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary
Conclusion: on archaeology and politics across Eurasia
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The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia

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