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Masters of the steppe : the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia /

Proceedings of the conference convened towards the exhibition, Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia, at The British Museum, September 14, 2017-January 14, 2018. Organised in association with The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: State Hermitage Musuem
Otros Autores: Pankova, Svetlana (Curator) (Editor ), Simpson, St John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Hartwig Fischer ; Foreword
  • Mikhail Piotrovsky ; Preface and acknowledgements
  • Svetlana V. Pankova, St John Simpson ; Introduction ; The Sasanian and Gupta empires and their struggle against the Huns
  • T. Bakker ; Supersize me: political aspects of monumental tomb building in early steppe empires
  • Thomas J. Barfield ; Saka 'Animal Style': the 'mysterious picture' on a carved bone container from central Kazakhstan
  • Arman Z. Beisenov ; A Scythian treasure in the lands of the Getae: considerations regarding the hoard of Stâncești
  • Alexandru Berzovan ; Interactions between mobile pastoralists and settled agricultural societies in central Asia: examples from the work of the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
  • Nikolaus Boroffka ; The Arzhan-2 'royal' funerary-commemorative complex: stages of function and internal chronology
  • Konstantin V. Chugunov ; Scythian archers of the 4th century BC: a new archaeological study of excavated bows, arrows and quivers from the northern Black Sea region
  • Marina Daragan ; Fabergé and the gold making tradition in Russia
  • Caroline de Guitaut, LVO ; Scythians, Persians, Greeks and horses: reflections on art, culture, power and empires in the light of frozen burials and other excavations
  • Henri-Paul Francfort ; Textiles, dyes and pigments of the European Scythians: preliminary analyses of materials from southern Ukraine
  • Margarita Gleba, Ina Vanden Berghe, Marina Daragan ; Scythian gold from 19th century private collections in the Department of the Ancient World in the State Hermitage Museum
  • O. Gorskaya ; Scientific study of the etching process used on ancient carnelian beads
  • Clément Holé, Aude Mongiatti, St John Simpson ; Trade, community and labour in the Pontic Iron Age forest-steppe region, c. 700-200 BC
  • James A. Johnson ; The predator scene in Scythian 'Animal Style' as a socio-political indicator
  • Vladimir A. Kisel ; 'Animal Style' art: influences and traditions in the nomadic world
  • Elena Korolkova ; To accompany and honour the deceased: the horses from the graves of the Pazyryk culture
  • Sébastien Lepetz, K. Debue, D. Batsukh ; The royal *gaunaka: dress, identity, status and ceremony in Achaemenid Iran
  • Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ; Scythian archery
  • Mike Loades ; A priestly burial from the Taksai-1 cemetery
  • Yana Lukpanova ; The Okunev culture: a unique Siberian civilisation and its links with Scythian and later cultures
  • Leonid S. Marsadolov ; Scientific analyses of some glass beads from Scythian and later sites in southern Siberia
  • Andrew Meek, Nikolai N. Nikolaev, St John Simpson ; Petroglyphs of the Scythian period in the Oglakhty mountains (Republic of Khakassia, Russia): new materials and problems of attribution
  • Elena Miklashevich ; Scythian and Sarmatian weapons with gold decoration
  • Raphael S. Minasyan ; Gold of Peter the Great: Scythian goldsmithing techniques
  • Aude Mongiatti, Elena Korolkova ; Life and death in the Scythian world of southern Siberia: a social bioarchaeological study of the mobile pastoralists from Aymyrlyg
  • Eileen Murphy, Yuri Chistov ; Pazyryk horse masks of Gorny Altai
  • Maria Ochir-Goryaeva ; Mummies and mannequins from the Oglakhty cemetery in southern Siberia
  • Svetlana V. Pankova ; Textile finds from the central burials of the Arzhan-1 barrow in Tuva
  • Svetlana V. Pankova, Elena A. Mikolaychuk, Lyudmila S. Gavrilenko, Leonid S. Marsadolov ; The Sarmatian conquest of the northern Pontic region: the state of the art of the problem
  • Sergei Polin ; The royal Scythian Alexandropol kurgan based on new research data of 2004-2009
  • Sergei Polin, Marina Daragan ; New investigations of Scythian kurgans and their periphery in the lower Dnieper region: non-destructive measurements and archaeological proof
  • Sergej Polin, Marina Daragan, Kseniia Bondar ; The formation of the early Scythian cultural complex of the Kelermes cemetery in the Kuban region of the north Caucasus
  • Tatyana V. Ryabkova ; The results of new scientific analyses of gold bracelets from Taksai-1 and an iron sword from Issyk in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • A. K. Satubaldin, S. A. Yarygin, A. Mongiatti, D. O'Flynn, J. Lang ; Secrets of Achaemenid production of personal ornaments and vessels
  • Ekaterina A. Shablavina ; Jiang Yuan and north Chinese nomads
  • Daniil P. Shulga ; Mysterious transformations of the Scythian cultures in the 6th and 3rd centuries BC
  • P. I. Shulga ; Etched or bleached? Traded or copied? Comments on the dating and distribution of a distinctive type of decorated carnelian bead found from India to Eurasia from the early 1st millennium BC to the early medieval period
  • St John Simpson ; In hoc signo vinces: the victory of the Scythians over the offspring of their slaves as a manifestation of divine providence (Herodotus, The Histories 4.1 [3], 3, 4)
  • Nikolay Yu. Smirnov ; Testing Herodotus: leather species identification of Scythian quivers using new scientific methods
  • Luke Spindler, Margarita Gleba, Marina Daragan, Matthew Collins ; Saddles of the Hun-Sarmatian period
  • Elena V. Stepanova ; The wooden comb of the 'golden lady': a new battle image from the Taksai-1 kurgan (western Kazakhstan)
  • Lâtife Summerer, Yana Lukpanova ; Finds from the Noin-Ula kurgans at an exhibition in Berlin in 1929 (based on materials from the archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the History of Material Culture)
  • Natalia A. Sutiagina, Daria A. Kukina ; The Scythian empire: reassessing steppe power from western and eastern perspectives
  • Timothy Taylor, Christine M. Havlicek, Christopher I. Beckwith ; Antennae of Scythian akinakai: from abstraction to realism, there and back again
  • Denis Topal ; Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas
  • Burzine Waghmar ; 'Steppe Style' in southeast Gansu province (China) in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC
  • Raphael Wong ; Conclusions ; Bibliography ; Index.