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The excavations at the Bronze Age site of Altyn-Depe in southwest Soviet Central Asia (Turkmenistan) have revealed an urban community dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The region of Turkmenistan forms a natural crossroads between Eastern Iran and Central Asia, and between Siberia and southern Russia and the Indus Valley. Altyn-Depe was important not only for its development as a cultural center in its own right but as a link between the various...

Proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in January 1987. The primary objective of this symposium was to examine the diversity in data, methodologies, and interpretive models that have emerged from recent fieldwork.The volume is divided into three main parts: the first contains articles devoted to the excavation and interpretation of individual sites, the second focuses on papers dealing with issues concerning t...

Seasonal fluctuations constrain the food production options of nonindustrial peoples. How do people cope with these constraints and what are the consequences of seasonality for human health and well-being? The papers in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives. Included are studies of physiological responses to seasonal scarcity, seasonality research in archaeology, and ethnographic case studies of the role of seasonalit...