Masters of the steppe : the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia: Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 / edited by Svetlana Pankova, St John Simpson.

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Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020.
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774 pages : color illustrations, color maps 29 cm

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    Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 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 / Hans 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.
    ISBN
    • 9781789696479 (paperback)
    • 178969647X (paperback)
    LCCN
    2020445194
    OCLC
    1202883392
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