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Major Publications

Books:

L'Asie Centrale; des origines a l'age du Fer (Central Asia: Palaeolithic Beginnings to the Iron Age) (Paris, 1984)

The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia (Cambridge 2007)

editor of The Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia: Recent Soviet Discoveries (M.E. Sharpe, 1981)

editor of Recent Discoveries in Transcaucasia (special issue of Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology (M.E. Sharpe, 1992)

co-editor of Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology (Cambridge 1995) with Clare Fawcett

co-editor of Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts (Chicago 2007) with M. Kozelsky and N. Ben-Yehuda

co-translator, editor, and with a preface for the revised English edition: The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran, by
M.A. Dandamaev and V.G. Lukonin's Kul'tura i Ekonomika Drevnogo Irana (Cambridge 1989)

edited translation and with a foreword to Early Antiquity (Chicago 1991) (I.M. Diakonoff, general Soviet editor)

Articles:

"The Balance of Trade in Southwestern Asia in the Mid-Third Millennium B.C.," Current Anthropology, pp. 463-492, vol. 19, no. 3 (1978).

"Religion, Politics, and Prehistory: the life and writings of O. Menghin and their lingering legacy for culture-historical archaeology,” (with J.A. Perez Gollan), Current Anthropoology 43 (4 - August-October 2002): 561-586.

"Materialist Approaches in Prehistory," Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 10 (1981):98-118.

"Nationalism and Archaeology: On the Constructions of Nations and the Reconstructions of the Remote Past", Annual Review of Anthropology, 27 (1998): 223-246, a revised version of this article appears in the Encyclopedia of Nationalism, ed. by A. Motyl, vol. 1, Academic Press, pp. 25-38.

"Central Asia (Western Turkestan): Neolithic to the Early Iron Age,"Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, 3rd edition, pp. 179-195,
ed. by R.W. Ehrich, University of Chicago Press.

"The Use and Abuse of World Systems Theory: The Case of the 'Pristine' West Asian State," Advances in Archaeological Method and
Theory, vol. 11 (1987), pp. 1-35; also a revised version in Archaeological Thought in America, pp. 218-240 ed. by C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Cambridge Unversity Press, 1989.

"Trade and World Systems in Early Bronze Age Western Asia," in Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe, ed. by C. Scarre and
F. Healy, 1993, Oxbow Books: Oxford, pp. 17-34.

"Limits to a Post-Processual Archaeology (or, The Dangers of a New Scholasticism)," pp. 13-19 in Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda?, ed. by N. Yoffee and A. Sherratt, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.

“Archaeological Transformations: Crossing the Pastoral/Agricultural Bridge.” In Festschrift for C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, ed. by D.T. Potts, Iranica Antiqua XXXVII: 151-190.

“Bronze production and utilization in Southeastern, Daghestan, Russia: c. 3600-1900 BC. In Die Anfänge der Metallurgie in der
Alten Welt, ed. by M. Bartelheim, E. Pernicka, and R. Krause, Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH: Rahden/Westf., 2002, pp. 161-184.

“Early Connections between the Caucasus and the Ancient Near East: archaeological implications of obsidian analyses from the Caucasus,” article (with R. Badalian and C. Chataigner), in A View from the Highlands: Trans-Caucasus, Eastern Anatolia and Northwestern Iran: studies in honour of C.A. Burney, ed. by A. Sagona, pp. 437-465.