Migration Concepts in Central Eurasian Archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Frachetti (0000-0001-6906-4334, Washington University in St. Louis, corresponding author), Michael D Frachetti (Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 195-212 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-081309-145939 |
| OpenAlex | W2122409287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 96 |
Theories of migration hold a pervasive position in prehistoric archaeology of Central Eurasia. International research on Eurasia today reflects the juxtaposition of archaeological theory and practice from distinct epistemological traditions, and migration is at the crux of current debates. Migration was employed paradigmatically during the Soviet era to explain the geography and materiality of prehistoric ethnogenesis, whereas in the west it was harshly criticized in prehistoric applications, especially in the 1970s. Since the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), migration has resurfaced as an important, yet polemical, explanation in both academic arenas. Short- and long-distance population movements are seen as fundamental mechanisms for the formation and distribution of regional archaeological cultures from the Paleolithic to historical periods and as a primary social response to environmental, demographic, and political pressures. Critics view the archaeological record of Eurasia as a product of complex local and regional interaction, exchange, and innovation, reinvigorating essential debates around migration, diffusion, and autochthonous change in Eurasian prehistory
Archaeology · Economic geography · Ethnic group · Ethnogenesis · Ethnology · Geography · Materiality · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Population · Prehistoric archaeology · Prehistory · Sociology · State formation · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Nomadic Mobility, Migration, and Environmental Pressure in Eurasian Prehistory
Bronze Age Central Asia
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia
The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia
Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier
Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia
Central Asia in the Late Roman Mental Map, Second to Sixth Centuries
Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia
Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries
Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples
The Relations between China and the Steppe
“Charismatic” Goods
Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- and Seventh-Century Türks
The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use Between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Türks
Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire
Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
How the Steppes Became Byzantine
Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia
Epilogue
The Second Stage of Sarmatian Settlement in Wallachia
Migrations in the Archaeology of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (Some Comments on the Current State of Research)
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Esferas De Movilidad, Sistemas De Parentesco E Isotopos
The impact of climate change on major migrations in Turkish history (1700 BC-850 AD)
Potential influence of the late Holocene climate on settled farming versus nomadic cattle herding in the Minusinsk Hollow, south-central Siberia
Mobility and land use in the Greater Khorasan Civilization
Understanding the prehistory of domestic animals in East and Central Asia through scientific archaeozoology
A model for pastoral mobility in Iron Age Kazakhstan
Landscape archaeology in the Chinese Altai Mountains – Survey of the Heiliutan Basin
Burial ritual, agriculture, and craft production among Bronze Age pastoralists at Tasbas (Kazakhstan)
Prehistoric Mongolian Archaeology in the Early 21st Century
Archaeology of the Silk Road
Cannabis in Eurasia
A new zooarchaeological application for geometric morphometric methods
Radiocarbon Dating of Late Bronze Age Burials from the Great Urals (Steppe Trans-Urals and Northern Kazakhstan) and Bayesian Modeling
Bridging the Divide
Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC
Xiongnu “Kings” and the Political Order of the Steppe Empire
Generalized P rocrustes analysis of an ontogenetic series of modified crania
The Sarmatians
Cycles of historical inquiry
Transdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Migration Studies in Archaeology
Polities and nomads
The earliest Bronze Age culture of the south-eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia
[Re]Integrating a dispersed agenda
Adunqiaolu
Mobile Landscapes and Their Enduring Places
Peasant mobility, local migration and premodern urbanization
An evaluation of competing hypotheses for the early adoption of wheat in East Asia
The honest labour of stone mounds
On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
The first excavations of bronze and iron age monuments in the middle Orkhon Valley, Central Mongolia
Rainey and the Russians
The Impact of Ancient Genome Studies in Archaeology
A History of Inner Asia
The Origin of the Indo-Iranians
Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Ages
The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking
Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia
Documenting domestication
The Eurasian Heartland
A History of Archaeological Thought
Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia
Archaeology and Language
Cultural relationships in North-Central Eurasia
Migrations and Invasions in Archaeological Explanation
Impact of the Environment on Human Migration in Eurasia
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
Ethnos and Endogamy
New Radiocarbon Dates and a Review of the Chronology of Prehistoric Populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia
Climate change and the expansion of the Scythian culture after 850 BC
Archaeology and Language
Long-Term Occupation and Seasonal Settlement of Eastern Eurasian Pastoralists at Begash, Kazakhstan
A theory of migration
Migration as an explanatory concept in paleolithic archaeology
Colonization of Northern Eurasia by Modern Humans
Empires of the Silk Road
Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique
Ancient Interactions
Horse‐mounted invaders from the Russo‐Kazakh steppe or agricultural colonists from western Central Asia? A craniometric investigation of the Bronze Age settlement of Xinjiang
Is Central Asia the eastern outpost of the Neandertal range? A reassessment of the Teshik‐Tash child
From Scale to Practice
The affinity of the dental remains from Obi-Rakhmat Grotto, Uzbekistan
Development of metallurgy in Eurasia
The Neolithic Invasion of Europe
Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes and Mongolia
Ceramic Style Change and Neutral Evolution
A Chronology of the Scythian Antiquities of Eurasia Based on New Archaeological and 14 C Data
Prometheus Unbound
The Paleolithic of Central Asia
The "Kurgan Culture," Indo-European Origins, and the Domestication of the Horse
Historical Patterns of Migration [and Comments and Reply]
Toward a New Outline of the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
The Retreat from Migrationism
Craniometric Similarities Within and Between Human Populations in Comparison with Neutral Genetic Data
Craniometric Evidence of the Early Caucasoid Migrations to Siberia and Eastern Central Asia, With Reference to the Indo-European Problem
The Role of Migration in the Evolution of the Andronov Community
The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva
Dispersal and colonisation, long and short chronologies
Attainments and problems of Soviet archaeology
The Contingencies of State Formation in Eastern Inner Asia
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia
Migrations in Prehistory
Inner Asian Frontiers of China
The Movius Line controversy
No longer from another planet
Palaeoenvironments and economy of Iron Age Saka-Wusun agro-pastoralists in southeastern Kazakhstan
The Alans on the Dniepr During the Great Migration Period
The Tatar Ethnic Community
Iron Age society and chronology in South-east Kazakhstan
Herodotus and the cannibals
Towards a refined chronology for the Bronze Age of the southern Urals, Russia
Soviet Historiography on Russia and the Mongols
Archaeology in the ex-USSR
From sheep to (some) horses
The Scythian period in the northern Black Sea region (750-250 BC)
Kurgans and nomads
The Xiongnu settlements of Egiin Gol, Mongolia
Archaeology in Soviet Russia
Archaeological Systematics and the Study of Culture Process
Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Culture Concept
The Baby and the Bathwater
Migration in Archeology
From the Invisible Hand to Visible Feet
Theoretical Issues in Contemporary Soviet Paleolithic Archaeology
Perils of Carts before Horses
Shared Social Fields
Archaeology and Migration
Kuldara
A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology
Undisciplined theory
| Unique citing works | 57 |
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| Citations per year | 4,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |