Publisher's Synopsis
This volume on Eastern Europe has contributions by many leading archaeologists from the regions under study and from Britain. Despite its wide chronological range, from the paleolithic to the early Middle Ages, the text achieves a coherence with the theme of interaction - movement of people, movement of ideas, and movement of objects. The power such interactions had to transform societies, whether through the introduction of new technology or farming practices or by social change wrought by dominant powers and ideologies, is further explored by many of the contributors. Each of the four chronological divisions of the book has its own introduction, written by scholars, helping to put the papers into context and making the prehistory of little-known regions more accessible to western scholars.
