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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kuzʹmina, E.E. (Elena Efimovna). Origin of the Indo-Iranians. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2007278979 (OCoLC)154946049 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E E Kuzʹmina; J P Mallory |
ISBN: | 9789047420712 9047420713 |
OCLC Number: | 302425976 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 762 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | The Andronovo cultural identity -- History of research on the Andronovo culture -- Methodological aspects of ethnocultural reconstruction -- Classification of sites and the primary features of Andronovo unity -- Settlements and domestic architecture -- Ceramics -- Mining, metallurgy, and the metal industry -- Textiles and dress -- Transport -- Economy -- The ethnogenesis of the Indo-Iranians and the ethnic attribution of the Andronovo culture -- Verification of the hypothesis -- Mortuary practice -- Indo-Iranian contacts with other linguistic groups -- The migrations of tribes and their cultures in Central Asia -- Cultures of Central Asia in the 4th-3rd millennia BC -- The Indo-Aryan migration and the first stage of the Andronovo migration to the south -- The agricultural tribes of south central Asia in the 2nd millennium BC -- The occupation of Central Asia by pastoral tribes -- The settlement of pastoral tribes in Central Asia -- Relation of the Andronovans with the population of Xinjiang and Central Asia -- Cultures of northern Bactria in the late Bronze Age -- Trans-Caspia and Turkmenia -- The genesis of the different branches of Indo-Iranians -- Modern state of the problem of Indo-Iranian origins -- The genesis of the Dards and Nuristani -- The genesis of Indo-Aryans -- The genesis of the Iranians. |
Series Title: | Leiden Indo-European etymological dictionary series, v. 3. |
Other Titles: | Indo-Iranians |
Responsibility: | by Elena E. Kuz'mina ; edited by J.P. Mallory. |
Abstract:
Presents an account of the Andronovo culture of Eurasia. Taking its evidence from archaeology, ethnology, mythology, and physical anthropology pertaining to Indo-Iranian origins and expansions, this work covers the relationships of the culture with neighboring areas and cultures, and its role in the foundation of the Indo-Iranian peoples.
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Elena Efimovna Kuz'mina won the Islamic Republic of Iran's World Prize for book of the year for her work : The Origin Of the Indo-Iranians (Brill, 2007). For more info see:http://www.ibna.ir/vdchk6nx.23nx6d10t2.html Read more...
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