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Papers by Philip Kohl

Research paper thumbnail of The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

Research paper thumbnail of Chuan-Chao Wang et al. Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2019) 10:590  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08220-8

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2019) 10:590 , 2019

Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian ‘steppe ancestry’ as a mixture of... more Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian ‘steppe ancestry’ as a mixture of Eastern and Caucasus hunter-gatherers. However, it remains unclear when and where this ancestry arose and whether it was related to a horizon of cultural innovations
in the 4th millennium BCE that subsequently facilitated the advance of pastoral societies in Eurasia. Here we generated genome-wide SNP data from 45 prehistoric individuals along a 3000-year temporal transect in the North Caucasus. We observe a genetic separation between the groups of the Caucasus and those of the adjacent steppe. The northern
Caucasus groups are genetically similar to contemporaneous populations south of it, suggesting human movement across the mountain range during the Bronze Age. The steppe groups from Yamnaya and subsequent pastoralist cultures show evidence for previously undetected farmer-related ancestry from different contact zones, while Steppe Maykop individuals harbour additional Upper Palaeolithic Siberian and Native American related ancestry.

Research paper thumbnail of Central Asian' Materials from Baluchistan and Southeastern Iran at the End of the Third Millenium B.C

Research paper thumbnail of Diverse Approaches to the Ottoman Past

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia: The Chalcolithic Prelude – From Social Hierarchies and Giant Settlements to the Emergence of Mobile Economies, ca. 4500–3500 BC

Research paper thumbnail of Stateless cities: The differentiation of societies in the near eastern Neolithic

Dialectical Anthropology, 1977

Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Phil... more Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Philip L. Kohl and Rita P. Wright It is the essence of the Neolithic economy that each village or hamlet could be ...

Research paper thumbnail of Materialist Approaches in Prehistory

Annu Rev Anthropol, 1981

Page 1. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 1981. 10:89-118 Copyright © 1981 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights r... more Page 1. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 1981. 10:89-118 Copyright © 1981 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved MATERIALIST APPROACHES »9672 IN PREHISTORY PL Kohl Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 ... ...

Research paper thumbnail of Shared Social Fields : Evolutionary Convergence in Prehistory and Contemporary Practice

American Anthropologist, Dec 1, 2008

In this article,

Research paper thumbnail of The use and abuse of world systems theory: the case of the “pristine” West Asian state

Archaeological Thought in America, 1989

Archaeologists have become increasingly critical of neo-evolutionary formulations for the develop... more Archaeologists have become increasingly critical of neo-evolutionary formulations for the development of complex society that stress internal, typically environmentally related factors to the exclusion or near exclusion of features relating to interaction and exchange among disparate ...

Research paper thumbnail of Origins, Homelands and Migrations: Situating the Kura-Araxes Early Transcaucasian 'Culture' within the History of Bronze Age Eurasia

Tel Aviv, 2009

... the actual remains of wooden wheels have been found respectively in the Lower Don (Koldyri, b... more ... the actual remains of wooden wheels have been found respectively in the Lower Don (Koldyri, burial 7, kurgan 14) and Kuban (Starokorsun, burial ... Ismailov 1985) or even farther south in northwestern Iran (eg, Geoy Tepe, Yanik Tepe and Tappeh Gijlar) or in eastern Anatolia (eg ...

Research paper thumbnail of Recent Research in Central Asia

... been undertaken in northeastern Iran (Iranian Kho-rassan); and northern Afghanistan is known ... more ... been undertaken in northeastern Iran (Iranian Kho-rassan); and northern Afghanistan is known through the efforts of American and, particularly, French and Soviet archaeologists, but important regions, such as the foothills of the northwestern Hindu Kush, remain ill ... h; Til ibe arif ...

Research paper thumbnail of General/Theoretical Anthropology: State Formation and Political Legitimacy. Ronald Cohen and Judith D. Toland, eds

Research paper thumbnail of Ámbitos sociales compartidos: convergencia evolutiva en la Prehistoria y la práctica contemporánea

Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Preliminary Report on the 1993 Excavations at Horom, Armenia

Iran, 1994

Page 1. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 1993 EXCAVATIONS AT HOROM, ARMENIA By Ruben S. Badaljan, Philip... more Page 1. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 1993 EXCAVATIONS AT HOROM, ARMENIA By Ruben S. Badaljan, Philip L. Kohl, David Stronach and Armen V. Tonikjan Yerevan, Wellesley, Massachussetts, and Berkeley Collaborative ...

Research paper thumbnail of Eurasia Antiqua

European Journal of Archaeology, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of The archeology of trade

Dialectical Anthropology, 1975

Research paper thumbnail of Symbolic cognitive archaeology: A new loss of innocence

Dialectical Anthropology, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Stateless cities: The differentiation of societies in the near eastern Neolithic

Dialectical Anthropology, 1977

Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Phil... more Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Philip L. Kohl and Rita P. Wright It is the essence of the Neolithic economy that each village or hamlet could be ...

Research paper thumbnail of On Early Trade

Current Anthropology, 1979

... It is the nature of archeology that, while it establishes the fact of penetration by objects ... more ... It is the nature of archeology that, while it establishes the fact of penetration by objects alien to a particular culture, it does not, as a rule ... A graphic example of this is offered by modern work on the Bronze Age in Bactria, where, as a result of archeological excavations, engravings ...

Research paper thumbnail of Soviet-American Archaeological Symposia on the Near East and Central Asia

Current Anthropology, 1980

Research paper thumbnail of The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia

Research paper thumbnail of Chuan-Chao Wang et al. Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2019) 10:590  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08220-8

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (2019) 10:590 , 2019

Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian ‘steppe ancestry’ as a mixture of... more Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian ‘steppe ancestry’ as a mixture of Eastern and Caucasus hunter-gatherers. However, it remains unclear when and where this ancestry arose and whether it was related to a horizon of cultural innovations
in the 4th millennium BCE that subsequently facilitated the advance of pastoral societies in Eurasia. Here we generated genome-wide SNP data from 45 prehistoric individuals along a 3000-year temporal transect in the North Caucasus. We observe a genetic separation between the groups of the Caucasus and those of the adjacent steppe. The northern
Caucasus groups are genetically similar to contemporaneous populations south of it, suggesting human movement across the mountain range during the Bronze Age. The steppe groups from Yamnaya and subsequent pastoralist cultures show evidence for previously undetected farmer-related ancestry from different contact zones, while Steppe Maykop individuals harbour additional Upper Palaeolithic Siberian and Native American related ancestry.

Research paper thumbnail of Central Asian' Materials from Baluchistan and Southeastern Iran at the End of the Third Millenium B.C

Research paper thumbnail of Diverse Approaches to the Ottoman Past

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia: The Chalcolithic Prelude – From Social Hierarchies and Giant Settlements to the Emergence of Mobile Economies, ca. 4500–3500 BC

Research paper thumbnail of Stateless cities: The differentiation of societies in the near eastern Neolithic

Dialectical Anthropology, 1977

Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Phil... more Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Philip L. Kohl and Rita P. Wright It is the essence of the Neolithic economy that each village or hamlet could be ...

Research paper thumbnail of Materialist Approaches in Prehistory

Annu Rev Anthropol, 1981

Page 1. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 1981. 10:89-118 Copyright © 1981 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights r... more Page 1. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 1981. 10:89-118 Copyright © 1981 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved MATERIALIST APPROACHES »9672 IN PREHISTORY PL Kohl Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 ... ...

Research paper thumbnail of Shared Social Fields : Evolutionary Convergence in Prehistory and Contemporary Practice

American Anthropologist, Dec 1, 2008

In this article,

Research paper thumbnail of The use and abuse of world systems theory: the case of the “pristine” West Asian state

Archaeological Thought in America, 1989

Archaeologists have become increasingly critical of neo-evolutionary formulations for the develop... more Archaeologists have become increasingly critical of neo-evolutionary formulations for the development of complex society that stress internal, typically environmentally related factors to the exclusion or near exclusion of features relating to interaction and exchange among disparate ...

Research paper thumbnail of Origins, Homelands and Migrations: Situating the Kura-Araxes Early Transcaucasian 'Culture' within the History of Bronze Age Eurasia

Tel Aviv, 2009

... the actual remains of wooden wheels have been found respectively in the Lower Don (Koldyri, b... more ... the actual remains of wooden wheels have been found respectively in the Lower Don (Koldyri, burial 7, kurgan 14) and Kuban (Starokorsun, burial ... Ismailov 1985) or even farther south in northwestern Iran (eg, Geoy Tepe, Yanik Tepe and Tappeh Gijlar) or in eastern Anatolia (eg ...

Research paper thumbnail of Recent Research in Central Asia

... been undertaken in northeastern Iran (Iranian Kho-rassan); and northern Afghanistan is known ... more ... been undertaken in northeastern Iran (Iranian Kho-rassan); and northern Afghanistan is known through the efforts of American and, particularly, French and Soviet archaeologists, but important regions, such as the foothills of the northwestern Hindu Kush, remain ill ... h; Til ibe arif ...

Research paper thumbnail of General/Theoretical Anthropology: State Formation and Political Legitimacy. Ronald Cohen and Judith D. Toland, eds

Research paper thumbnail of Ámbitos sociales compartidos: convergencia evolutiva en la Prehistoria y la práctica contemporánea

Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Preliminary Report on the 1993 Excavations at Horom, Armenia

Iran, 1994

Page 1. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 1993 EXCAVATIONS AT HOROM, ARMENIA By Ruben S. Badaljan, Philip... more Page 1. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE 1993 EXCAVATIONS AT HOROM, ARMENIA By Ruben S. Badaljan, Philip L. Kohl, David Stronach and Armen V. Tonikjan Yerevan, Wellesley, Massachussetts, and Berkeley Collaborative ...

Research paper thumbnail of Eurasia Antiqua

European Journal of Archaeology, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of The archeology of trade

Dialectical Anthropology, 1975

Research paper thumbnail of Symbolic cognitive archaeology: A new loss of innocence

Dialectical Anthropology, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Stateless cities: The differentiation of societies in the near eastern Neolithic

Dialectical Anthropology, 1977

Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Phil... more Page 1. 271 STATELESS CITIES: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIETIES IN THE NEAR EASTERN NEOLITHIC Philip L. Kohl and Rita P. Wright It is the essence of the Neolithic economy that each village or hamlet could be ...

Research paper thumbnail of On Early Trade

Current Anthropology, 1979

... It is the nature of archeology that, while it establishes the fact of penetration by objects ... more ... It is the nature of archeology that, while it establishes the fact of penetration by objects alien to a particular culture, it does not, as a rule ... A graphic example of this is offered by modern work on the Bronze Age in Bactria, where, as a result of archeological excavations, engravings ...

Research paper thumbnail of Soviet-American Archaeological Symposia on the Near East and Central Asia

Current Anthropology, 1980