Ludmila Koryakova is a professor at Ural State University and the Institute of History and Archaeology at the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the European Community (INTAS foundation), the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is the author of more than eighty publications in Russian, European, and American books and journals. Andrej Vladimirovich Epimakhov is a PhD Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as an Assistant Professor at Southern Ural State University.

'… very useful …' European Journal of Archaeology

• Introduction; Part I. The Bronze Age: The Rise of Economic and Cultural Complexity: 1. The development of bronze metallurgy; 2. The achievements and collisions of the early and middle Bronze Age; 3. Stabilization, colonization and expansion in the late Bronze Age; 4. On the eve of a new epoch: final Bronze Age; Part II. The Iron Age: Forming Eurasian Interactions: 5. The transition to the Iron Age and new tendencies in economic development; 6. The Southern Ural within the nomadic world: at the cultural crossroads; 7. The world of cultures of Cis-Urals forest zone of Eastern Europe: the maintenance of identities; 8. The forest-steppe cultures of the Urals and western Siberia: on the northern periphery of the nomadic world; 9. Social trends in north-central Eurasia during the second and first millennia BC.

Ludmila Koryakova is a professor at Ural State University and the Institute of History and Archaeology at the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the European Community (INTAS foundation), the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is the author of more than eighty publications in Russian, European, and American books and journals. Andrej Vladimirovich Epimakhov is a PhD Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as an Assistant Professor at Southern Ural State University.

'… very useful …' European Journal of Archaeology

• Introduction; Part I. The Bronze Age: The Rise of Economic and Cultural Complexity: 1. The development of bronze metallurgy; 2. The achievements and collisions of the early and middle Bronze Age; 3. Stabilization, colonization and expansion in the late Bronze Age; 4. On the eve of a new epoch: final Bronze Age; Part II. The Iron Age: Forming Eurasian Interactions: 5. The transition to the Iron Age and new tendencies in economic development; 6. The Southern Ural within the nomadic world: at the cultural crossroads; 7. The world of cultures of Cis-Urals forest zone of Eastern Europe: the maintenance of identities; 8. The forest-steppe cultures of the Urals and western Siberia: on the northern periphery of the nomadic world; 9. Social trends in north-central Eurasia during the second and first millennia BC.

Ludmila Koryakova is a professor at Ural State University and the Institute of History and Archaeology at the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the European Community (INTAS foundation), the Russian Academy of Sciences, CNRS, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is the author of more than eighty publications in Russian, European, and American books and journals. Andrej Vladimirovich Epimakhov is a PhD Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as an Assistant Professor at Southern Ural State University.

'… very useful …' European Journal of Archaeology

• Introduction; Part I. The Bronze Age: The Rise of Economic and Cultural Complexity: 1. The development of bronze metallurgy; 2. The achievements and collisions of the early and middle Bronze Age; 3. Stabilization, colonization and expansion in the late Bronze Age; 4. On the eve of a new epoch: final Bronze Age; Part II. The Iron Age: Forming Eurasian Interactions: 5. The transition to the Iron Age and new tendencies in economic development; 6. The Southern Ural within the nomadic world: at the cultural crossroads; 7. The world of cultures of Cis-Urals forest zone of Eastern Europe: the maintenance of identities; 8. The forest-steppe cultures of the Urals and western Siberia: on the northern periphery of the nomadic world; 9. Social trends in north-central Eurasia during the second and first millennia BC.