Reasons for the Burial of Bronze Artifact Hoards in the Eastern Eurasian Steppe

Similar bronze hoards have been found in the Yanshan Mountain and the piedmont of Tianshan Mountain in the Northern Zone of China, and the bronze wares in these hoards are mainly tools and weapons. In the 13–9th centuries BC, the Andronovo Cultural Community of the Tianshan Mountain was in a period of decline, and the relations between groups of people became very tense, wars were frequent, and people were inevitably forced to migrate and flee. At the same time, the Yanshan Mountain regions also experienced many major changes, and the unstable social state also led to frequent wars, so the bronze hoards of the both regions may have been buried in a hurry during the war escape, which is not an accidental phenomenon, but a material embodiment of the social background at that time

Bronze · Bronze Age · Steppe · Legal and Regulatory Analysis · Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies · Military Technology and Strategies