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Post by keaganjoelbrewer on Jan 3, 2009 13:13:16 GMT 3
I will be doing a course at uni this coming semester on the archaeology of Central Asia.
I know little about about archaeology in general and about the early history of Central Asia (earliest times to the coming of Islam).
Does anybody know any books that could give me an introduction to this early stuff?
At the moment, I have Richard Frye's Heritage of Central Asia and I've ordered a couple of other books in: Knobloch, Beyond the Oxus and The World of Archaeology, volume 2: Central Asia.
Can anyone recommend me something?
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jan 4, 2009 1:08:17 GMT 3
The best researchers in this field were and are the Russians, so you have to check Russian works in order to get a better understanding of CA archaeology, most notably those of the famous Ukrainian archaeologist Rudenko.
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Post by Azadan Januspar on Apr 4, 2009 18:28:45 GMT 3
You read 'The Archaelogy of Central Asia' by Harmatta?
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Post by keaganjoelbrewer on Apr 5, 2009 8:44:10 GMT 3
Nope =) I ended up quitting that course anyway. I wanted to write an essay on the Amu Darya which would need to use written sources, and they were all stupid about me wanting to use written sources as well as archaeology. I can't afford to get a low mark this year, cause I need a scholarship to keep studying, so I quit. Hehe, archaeologists... There was too much stuff in Russian anyway, and I don't read Russian (yet).  |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Apr 5, 2009 13:49:20 GMT 3
That's a serious problem I suffer from too, so I'm planning to learn Russian in the following years by staying in one of the Russian-speaker countries. My greatest interests are on military and religious history of nomads, but most of the stuff written about these are in Russian  |
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Post by keaganjoelbrewer on Apr 5, 2009 15:19:24 GMT 3
Hehe yeah I know what you mean. Russian is not a language I am looking forward to learning. I tried to have a go at it myself once, but it's crazy and annoyingly difficult, even for someone who has studied quite a few languages already.
Where are you considering going, Ihsan?
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Apr 6, 2009 14:06:39 GMT 3
Indeed, the only way I can really learn that language is staying in a country where it's spoken. I'm thinking of Belarus as my primary target, but I can also go to some Turkic autonomous republics inside Russia, especially Tatarstan.
I also have to stay in such Russian-speaker regions because there's just too many stuff written in Russian, so I have to collect them as much as I can. It is not possible to find them here in Turkey.
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Post by earthandice on Jul 25, 2009 3:31:03 GMT 3
keganjoelbrewer, email me off list and I can give you some PDF.s in English on some of the archaeological sites in Ukraine and Czech republic.
Heads up, in most college courses on archaeology or anthropology you do have to have peer reviewed journal entries. There are some sources, usually your university library, that you can get papers either emailed to you or get print-outs to use in your work.
I am also interested in that area of the world, so I usually ask for the ones that pique my interests from one of the groups I am in.
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Post by Alanus on Apr 27, 2010 5:57:22 GMT 3
Rudenko was translated by Thompson, back in the 1970s I think-- "Frozen Tombs of Siberia."
A new one-- "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language," by David Anthony.
A gorgeous one-- "The Golden Deer of Eurasia," coproduced by the Hermitage, the AM Ufa, and the Metro. Muse. de Art (NY). This one makes you drool.
Anything by Janos Harmatta is trustworthy.
Also Istvan Bona.
Look up Jennine Davis-Kimbal for the "woman's perspective."
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