Michael
Frachetti, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Washington University, St.
Louis
“Bronze Age
Inhabitation, Mobility, and Displacement among the first farming herders of
highland Inner Asia: case studies from Eastern Kazakhstan”
Thursday,
Jan. 29, 2015 at 5 p.m. (note new time)
Stanford
Archaeology Center, Bldg. 500, 488 Escondido Mall (behind the Main Quad’s
Memorial Church, towards the clock tower)
The
discovery of the earliest known domestic grains and the first evidence for the
integration of farming, recently documented at multi-period campsites built by
nomadic pastoralists over 4000 years, was found by the Dzhungar Mountains
Archaeology project in eastern Kazakhstan. These discoveries allow us to revise
our understanding of Bronze Age economic strategies across Eurasia, indicating
inter-regional engagement and participation.
Michael
Frachetti’s research focuses on the dynamic strategies of nomadic societies living
in the steppes, mountains, and deserts of Central and Eastern Eurasia, from
prehistory to more recent times. He is author of Pastoralist Landscapes
and Social interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia (UC Press, 2008).
Co-sponsored
by the Silk Road Foundation, Archaeology Center, and Stanford Humanities Center
