This book provides an overview of Bronze Age societies of Western Eurasia through an investigation of the archaeological record. The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia outlines the long-term processes and patterns of interaction that link these groups together in a shared historical trajectory of development. Interactions took the form of the exchange of raw materials and finished goods, the spread and sharing of technologies, and the movements of peoples from one region to another. Kohl reconstructs economic activities from subsistence practices to the production and exchange of metals and other materials. Kohl also argues forcefully that the main task of the archaeologist should be to write culture-history on a spatially and temporally grand scale in an effort to detect large, macrohistorical processes of interaction and shared development. # A rich overview of the archaeological late prehistoric record of western Eurasia that has been compiled principally by Soviet/Russians throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries # The book integrates developments on the steppes of #barbarian# western Eurasia with the emergence of development of early states in the #civilized# ancient Near East to the south # The book argues forcefully that the main task of the archaeologist should be to write culture-history on a spatially and temporally grand scale that detects large macro-historical processes of interaction and shared development