Metallurgical Provinces of Eurasia in the Early Metal Age: Problems of Interrelation

摘要

General chronological frame of the Early Metal Age (EMA) in Eurasia limited from Ⅸ/Ⅷ up to turn Ⅱ/Ⅰ mill. BCE. The chronological scale of this investigation founded on the systematized date base of more than 3.5 thousand calibrated ~(14)C analyses. EMA can be subdivided into five unequal in chronological sense periods. The Early Metal Age was the epoch clear domination of the western metallurgical centers - particularly up to Ⅲ mill. BCE. In all probabilities the apogee of the western predominance was incarnated in the immense of the famous Scythian world, in the limits of the first millennium BCE - i.e. beyond the EMA. The eastern centers take up the initiative of westward pressing after collapse of the Scythian world.