Regional Specifics in Light of Global Models BC Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium. Volume 1: Ethnos, Language, Culture; General Problems; Studying Statistics; Studying Sintashta; The Eneolithic and Bronze Ages (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series, Number 45)

I. ETHNOS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE: The Indo-European Problem and the Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppes-Questions of Time Depth; Ethnic and Cultural Interconnections between Iran and Turan in the 2nd Millennium BC; Towards A Possible Linguistic Interpretation of the Arkaim-Sintashta Discoveries; Arkaim and the Indo-Iranian Var; Avestan "Yima's Town" in Historical and Archaeological Perspective; Indo-European Burial, the "Rig Veda," and "Avesta"; Archaeological Mythology and Some Real Problems of the Current Archaeology. II. GENERAL PROBLEMS: Social Landscape of Central Eurasia in the Bronze and Iron Ages-Tendencies, Factors, and Limits of Transformation. III. STUDING SINTASHTA: G.B. ZDANOVICH AND I.M. BATANINA: Planography of the Fortified Centers of the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Trans-Urals according to Aerial Photography Data; Complex Societies and the Possibilities to Diagnose them on the Basis of Archaeological Data: Sintashta Type Sites of the Middle Bronze Age of the Trans-Urals; The Sintashta Culture and the Indo-European Problem; "Proto-towns" of the Bronze Age in the South Urals and Ancient Khorasmia; On the Problem of Chronological Correlation between Sintashta Type and MRC Sites; The Cemetery of Bestamak and the Structure of the Community; Sintashta Burial Sacrifice-The Bolshekaragansky Cemetery in Focus; Animals in the Burial Rite of the Population of the Volga-Ural Area in the Beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC. IV. ENEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES: Yamnaya Culture in the South Urals Area; The Trans-Ural Eneolithic Sanctuaries with Astronomical Reference Points in a System of Similar Eurasian Models; Circular Settlements in the Lower Tobal Area; The Regional Differences of the Prestige Bronze Ages BurialsSpears-Signs of Archaic Leaders of the Pokrovsk Archaeological Culture; Regional Peculiarities of Technology of the Shield Cheekpiece Production