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Оглавление - Dynasty. Metal. Horse. Volume I. Genesis
The Birth of the Eurasian Nomadic Civilization
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- One Ancestor, Two Lineages — and the Birth of a Nomadic Civilization
- I. The Deep Past
- II. Two Lineages, Two Landscapes
- III. Encounter and Synthesis
- IV. Space as a Factor
- V. The Birth of the System
- VI. Entry into Written History
- VII. A New Perspective
- VIII. What This Book Is About
- Postscript: On Method
- Introduction
- The Problem
- What the Existing Schools Left Unexplained
- The Russian School: A Question without an Instrument
- The Central Hypothesis
- The DAEX Model
- Steppe Dynamics as a Complex System
- The Steppe Institutional Continuum
- Sources
- Methodological Limits
- The Structure of Volume I
- Chapter 1 — Operational Definitions: Dynasty, Convergence, a Living Model
- 1.1 Dynasty: Not a Throne but a Mechanism
- 1.2 The Principle of Convergence
- 1.3 The DAEX Model: Four Indicators
- 1.4 The Supercomplex Chiefdom and the Micro-Mechanisms
- 1.5 The Kyrgyz Sanjyra: Palimpsest and Comparative Model
- 1.6 Sintashta: An Early Crystallization
- 1.7 Limits of Applicability and the Heuristic Character of the DAEX Model
- 1.8 What Remains to Be Tested
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2 — Sintashta: How a Model of Power Flared and Scattered
- 2.1 The Country of Towns: An Architecture of Power without a State
- 2.2 Where the Hierarchy Appears: Burial Practice
- 2.3 The First Pillar: The Horse
- 2.4 The Second Pillar: Metal
- 2.5 The Genetic Picture: Alliance from the First Day
- 2.6 The Third Pillar: Inherited Power and the Eight Roads out of Sintashta
- 2.7 Why Here, and Why So Fast
- 2.8 The Andronovo Fan: The Empirical Skeleton of the First Process
- 2.9 Summary
- Conclusions
- Appendix to Chapter 2
- The Epistemic Position of Appendix 2
- Chapter 3 — The Orak-Ulus Synthesis: The Meeting of Two Worlds and the Crystallization of the DAEX Matrix
- 3.0 A Contract with the Reader: Three Working Terms
- 3.1 The Trap That Became a Cradle: The Minusinsk Basin
- 3.2 The Masters of the Basin: The Okunev Were More Complex Than They Seemed
- 3.3 The Road from the Urals to the Yenisei: A Chain of Nodes
- 3.4 The Archaeology of Contact: What Is Visible in the Ground
- 3.5 One Cemetery on the Bank of the Yenisei
- 3.6 Two Parallel Dynasties: Synchronous Diversification
- 3.7 Why Integration, Not Displacement
- 3.8 Seven Explanatory Models
- 3.9 The DAEX Matrix in the Minusinsk Basin
- Conclusions
- Appendix to Chapter 3
- The Epistemic Position of Appendix 3
- Chapter 4 — Ideology: The Birth of a Calendar, a Cult and a Formula of Power
- 4.0 What We Can and Cannot Reconstruct
- PART I. TWO WORLDVIEWS
- 4.1 Steppe Verticality: The World of the Newcomers
- 4.2 Local Horizontality: The World of the Okunev
- PART II. THE CHANNELS OF SYNTHESIS
- 4.3 Exogamy as a Channel for the Transmission of Knowledge
- 4.4 Vertical Transhumance: A School of Management
- PART III. THE FRUITS OF SYNTHESIS: CALENDAR, FORMULA, SYMBOL
- 4.5 The Calendar-Beast: When Observation Becomes an Instrument of Power
- 4.6 The Triad Tengri – Qut – Tengdik: A Formula of Power with Feedback
- 4.7 Material Carriers: When Ornament Becomes Memory
- PART IV. THE LIMITS OF THE MODEL
- 4.8 Alternative Explanations
- Conclusions
- Appendix to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5 — Spatial Expansion: The Mountain-Steppe Corridor and the Shaping of a Macro-Adaptive System
- 5.0 What We Can and Cannot Reconstruct
- PART I. THE NODE WHERE EVERYTHING CONVERGES: THE SAGSAI HORIZON
- 5.1 The Mountain-Steppe Corridor: Space as an Institution
- 5.2 The Genetic Framework: Three Related Branches of the Sagsai Elite
- 5.3 A Multi-Lineage Confederation: Five Lines of One System
- 5.4 A Two-Zone Model of the Formation of the DSKC
- PART II. THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF POWER: THE DSKC
- 5.5 Khirgisuurs: Monuments as Logistics
- 5.6 Deer Stones: A Single Information Field
- 5.7 Horse Sacrifice and Centripetal Mobility
- PART III. SYSTEMIC CONNECTIONS
- 5.8 Four R↔Q Synchronies (Δ = 0): The Mathematics of a Confederation
- 5.9 The Xinjiang Node: BMAC + Afanasievo + Sintashta
- PART IV. THE GREAT STEPPE BOUNDARY
- 5.10 Demarcation: The DSKC and the Ulaanzukh – Slab-Grave Cultural Block
- 5.11 Climatic Refuges: Why the Altai
- PART V. THE LIMITS OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
- 5.12 Alternative Explanations
- Conclusions
- Appendix to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6 — The Peng Polity: How Steppe Power Worked without Armies or Borders
- 6.1 The Paradox of Hengbei: A Steppe Rite without Steppe Genes
- 6.2 A Deep Northern Pedigree: Guifang and the Origins of the Peng House
- 6.3 The Chariot Relay: From Creators to Mediators (Karasuk → Ulaanzukh → Shang)
- 6.4 People Lying Prone: The Archaeology and (Expected) Biogeochemistry of the Translators
- 6.5 The Western Zhou: A Client Node and Marital Diplomacy
- 6.6 Conclusion: A Longue Durée Synthesis and a Step beyond the Buffer Zone
- Appendix to Chapter 6
- Epistemic Map
- Integral Conclusion
- Chapter 7 — From Legend to Source: How a Nameless World Entered Written History
- 7.0 What a Written Source Gives — and What It Does Not
- 7.1 The Text That Survived Its Own Disappearance
- 7.2 Why the Warring States Needed an Ancient King
- 7.3 How Scholarship Learned to Read Legends: Herodotus, Niebuhr, Ranke
- 7.4 How the Scholarly Status of the MTZZ Changed
- 7.5 The First Step: The Western Zhou and King Mu — Historical Reality
- 7.6 The Second Step: Names That Could Not Have Been Invented
- 7.7 The Third Step: The Peng Polity Proved Real
- 7.8 The Fourth Step: Peng as a Frontier Translator
- 7.9 The Fifth Step: Gift-Exchange as Frontier Diplomacy
- 7.10 The Sixth Step: Geography and Climate
- 7.11 The Seventh Step, the Final Chord: The Name
- 7.12 What the Source Named: The Archaeological Portrait
- 7.13 What the Source Named: A Line in the Earth
- 7.14 The Name through Time: Juanhan → Gekun
- 7.15 The Ladder in One Glance: Ten Levels
- 7.16 What We Actually Saw
- 7.17 What This Means for Volume I
- 7.18 An Open Horizon: Heaven as the Source of Power
- Conclusions
- Appendix to Chapter 7
- The Epistemic Position of Appendix 7
- The Mu Tianzi Zhuan in Western Scholarship: Frühauf’s Edition (2024) and the Geography of the Localizations
- Conclusion: What Is Shown, What Is Reconstructed, What Remains Open
- Seven Steps of One Trajectory
- The Biological Mainline: What Is Shown Directly
- The Institutional Matrix: What Is Reconstructed through Convergence
- DAEX as a Living Model: What Is Offered for Future Testing
- Epistemic Boundaries
- Ring Composition and Open Horizon
- Final Chord
- Afterword
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- I. Sources in Latin Script
- II. Sources in Cyrillic Script (16 entries; romanized, ALA-LC)
- III. Archival Sources, Databases and Preprints (2 resources)