'This is the first comprehensive synthesis in the English language of the archaeological cultures surrounding the regions of the Black Sea … Of exceptional interest are the relationships [drawn] between the different culture and regions … Of outstanding significance is the evidence displaying the cultural interactions that bought the Caucasus, Anatolia, Iran, the Eurasian steppes, and Central Asia into patterns of cultural interaction throughout the Bronze Age … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' C. C. Lamberg-Larkovsky, Choice
1. Environment; 2. A framework of technology; 3. Eurasia: the Neolithic prologue; 4. The valley of the Lower Kuban; 5. The North Black Sea grassland; 6. The wetlands of the west Black Sea; 7. Unknown coasts: the Black Sea littoral of Anatolia; 8. Conclusions: the Black Sea and the outside world.