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 /: the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia : proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017. (2021)

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• Further Information: Note: Edited by Svetlana Pankova, St John Simpson.
• Editors: (Curator), Pankova, Svetlana; Simpson, St John
• Other Names: State Hermitage Musuem.
• 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 – 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.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 939.51; Scythians -- Eurasia -- Congresses; Nomads -- Eurasia -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Eurasia -- Congresses; Eurasia -- Antiquities -- Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789696486
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