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Christoph Baumer. The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors.
New York: I. B. Tauris and Co. Ltd., 2012, 302 pp. + plates, 12 maps. ISBN
978-1-78076-060-5.
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tral Asia is a volume worth its weight in gold in terms Samara Valley Project: Late Bronze Age Economy and Ritual
of images alone, many of which are unprecedented in the Russian Steppes. Eurasia Antiqua 11 (2005): 395-417.
for the region. While the author may not have had Baumer 2011
access to all of the critical scientific literature, he clear- Christoph Baumer. The Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe Culture: New
ly gained entry to many regions and collections that Archaeological Discoveries in the Taklamakan Desert, Chi-
are rarely accessed by foreigners. In the case of the site na. Asian Affairs 42/1 (2011): 4669.
of Ayala Mazar in Xinjiang (pp. 12333), the photo- Chang and Koster 1994
graphs are astounding, but how they were captured Claudia Chang and Harold A. Koster, eds. Pastoralists at the
raises significant questions. The photographs are evi- Periphery: Herders in a Capitalist World. Tuscon: Univ. of Ari-
dence that mummified heads were moved from their zona Pr., 1994.
original locations (p. 125), that wooden figures found
Cribb 1991
lying on the ground (Baumer 2011, p. 63) were placed
in standing positions and discussed as re-erected Roger Cribb. Nomads in Archaeology. New York: Cambridge
Univ. Pr., 1991.
wooden figures (pp. 124, 128), and that some items
may have been collected and photographed at a later Frachetti 2002
date (p. 133). However, it is unclear whether Baumer Michael D. Frachetti. Bronze Age Exploitation and Political
had permission to excavate or was part of a scientific Dynamics of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe Zone. In: Katie
team, as no brief reports have appeared in local jour- Boyle et al., eds. Ancient Interactions: East and West in Eur-
nals (Xinjiang wenwu Xinjiang Cultural Rel- asia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs, 2002, pp
ics) or broader scientific journals (Kaogu Archae- 24963.
ology) in China. Instead this significant discovery was Frachetti 2008a
published only as part of a paper given to the Royal _______. Variability and dynamic landscapes of mobile
Asiatic Society (Baumer 2011) and lacks the recogni- pastoralism in ethnography and prehistory. In: H. Barnard
tion usually given to scientific collaborators or insti- and W. Wendrich, eds. The Archaeology of Mobility: Nomads
tutions from China. The combination of these issues in the Old and in the New World. Cotsen Advanced Seminar
should give scholars pause to consider whether Bau- Series, 4. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
(UCLA), 2008, pp. 36696.
mer may have moved human remains or other
artifacts at the site without permission, or disturbed Frachetti 2008b
the site in any manner (e.g. standing up wooden fig- _______. Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze
ures for a photo). Hopefully these allegations are not Age Eurasia. Berkeley, etc.: Univ. of California Pr., 2008.
true, as they would seriously tarnish the reputation of Frachetti 2009
the author as well as his affiliated organizations.
_______. Differentiated Landscapes and Non-uniform
About the author Complexity among Bronze Age Societies of the Eurasian
Steppe. In: Bryan K. Hanks and Katheryn M. Linduff, eds.
Alicia Ventresca Miller received her Ph.D. from the Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals
University of Pittsburgh in 2013. Her dissertation fo- and Mobility. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2009, pp.
cused on understanding the Middle to Late Bronze 1946.
Age transition in the central Eurasian steppe, a time Frachetti 2011
when shifts in patterns of settlement and mortuary _______. Migration Concepts in Central Eurasian Archae-
practice occurred. This work expanded our under- ology. Annual Review of Anthropology 40 (2011): 195212.
standings of pastoral societies in northern Kazakh-
Frachetti and Maryashev 2007
stan, especially the detailed nature of social and bio-
Michael D. Frachetti and Alexei N. Maryashev. Long
logical communities in the past. Alicia is currently a
Term Occupation and Seasonal Settlement of Eastern
postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate School of Human Eurasian Pastoralists at Begash, Kazakhstan. Journal of Field
Development in Landscapes, Institute for Prehistory Archaeology 32 (2007): 22142.
and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-
Frachetti and Benecke 2009
Universitt zu Kiel. Her postdoctoral research inves-
Michael Frachetti and Norbert Benecke. From sheep to
tigates human and animal mobility during the Bronze
(some) horses: 4500 years of herd structure at the pastoralist
Age in the central Eurasian steppe through stable iso- settlement of Begash (south-eastern Kazakhstan). Antiquity
topic analyses. 83 (2009): 102337.
Hanks 2001
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