Table of Contents:
  • Focusing on central Eurasian archaeology: East meets West / Marsha Levine
  • Steppe and forest-steppe belt of Eurasia: Holocene environmental history / Konstantin V. Kremenetski
  • Green grows the steppe: how can grassland ecology increase our understanding of human-plant interactions and the origins of agriculture? / Mim A. Bower
  • Organic residue analysis of lipids in potsherds from the early Neolithic settlement of Botai, Kazakhstan / Stephanie N. Dudd, Richard P. Evershed, & Marsha Levine
  • Eneolithic horse rituals and riding in the steppes: new evidence / David W. Anthony & Dorcus R. Brown
  • Horse exploitation in the Kazakh steppes during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age / Norbert Benecke & Angela von den Driesch
  • The exploitation of horses at Botai, Kazakhstan / Sandra L. Olsen
  • Geomorphological and micromorphological investigations of palaeosols, valley sediments, and a sunken-floored dwelling at Botai, Kazakhstan / Charly French & Maria Kousoulakou
  • A note on the early evidence for horse in western Asia / Joan Oates
  • Were the donkeys at Tell Brak (Syria) harnessed with a bit? / Juliet Clutton-Brock
  • Equids in the northern part of the Iranian central plateau from the Neolithic to Iron Age: new zoogeographic evidence / Marjan Mashkour
  • A walk on the wild side: late Shang appropriation of horses in China / Kathryn M. Linduff
  • The horse in late prehistoric China: wresting culture and control from the 'barbarians' / Victor H. Mair
  • Horseback riding: man's access to speed? / Ute Luise Dietz
  • Origins of pastoralism in the Eurasian steppes / Elena E. Kuzmina
  • The horse and the wheel: the dialects of change in the circum-Pontic region and adjacent areas, 4500-1500 BC / Andrew Sherratt
  • The importance of fish in the diet of central Eurasian peoples from the Mesolithic to the early Iron Age / Tamsin O'Connell, Marsha Levine & Robert Hedges
  • Correlations between agriculture and pastoralism in the northern Pontic steppe area during the Bronze Age / Kateryna P. Bunyatyan
  • Palaeoethnobotanical evidence of agriculture in the steppe and the forest-steppe of east Europe in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age / Galina Pashkevich
  • First cattle-breeders of the Azov-Pontic steppes / Volodymyr N. Stanko
  • Farmers and pastoralists of the Pontic lowland during the late Bronze Age / Yakov P. Gershkovich
  • The economic peculiarities of the Srubnaya cultural-historical entity / Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko
  • Srubnaya fauna and beyond: a critical assessment of the archaezoological information from the east European steppe / Arturo Morales Muįz & Ekaterina Antipina
  • Yamnaya culture pastoral exploitation: a local sequence / Natalia I. Shishlina
  • Problems of inhabiting central Eurasia: Mesolithic-Eneolithic exploitation of the central Eurasian steppes / Gerald Matyushin
  • The steppes of the Urals and Kazakhstan during the late Bronze Age / Svetlana Zdanovich.