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Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and Settlements

Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Eileen M. Murphy, Ludmila Koryakova, Leonid T. Yablonksy

 

 

Kurgans, Ritual Sites

Table of Contents


Introduction
Jeannine Davis-Kimball


Part I. Eurasian Archaeological Theory

  • "Scythian Triad" and "Scythian World"
    Leonid T. Yablonsky
  • Some Current Problems Concerning the History of Early Iron Age Eurasian Steppe Nomadic Societies
    Vladimir A. Bashilov and Leonid T. Yablonsky
  • Some Notes About the Material Culture of Eurasian Nomads
    Ludmila Koryakova
  • Iron Age Nomadic Burials of the Eurasian Steppe: A Discussion Exploring Burial Ritual Complexity
    Bryan Hanks


Part II. Archaeological Excavations

  • Ancient Sanctuaries of the Aral and Caspian Regions: A Reconstruction of their History
    Valery S. Olkhovskiy
  • Excavations of the Aksai Kurgans in the Volga-Don Region (Russia)
    A. N. Dyachenko, A. S. Skripkin, V. M. Klepikov, A. I. Kubyshkin, and A. Mabe
  • Burials and Settlements at the Eurasian Crossroads: Joint Franco-Russian Project
    Ludmila Koryakova and Marie-Yvane Daire
    With assistance of Patrice Courtaud, Esther Gonzalez, Andrew Kovrigin1, Luic Languet, Dominique Marguerie, Dmitry Razhev, Svetlana Sharapova, and Marie-Celine Uge
  • The Environment of Iron Age Burials and Settlements at the Eurasian Crossroads (Urals, Russia): Preliminary Results of the Charcoal Analysis of Anthropogenic Fires
    Dominique Marguerie and Nancy Marcoux
  • The Kazakh-American Talgar Project Archaeological Field Surveys in the Talgar and Turgen-Asi Areas of Southeastern Kazakhstan: 1997-1999
    Claudia Chang and Perry A. Tourtellotte
  • The Beiram Mound: A Nomadic Cultic Site in the Altai Mountains (Western Mongolia)
    Jeannine Davis-Kimball


Part III. Interpretations of Eurasian Archaeology: The Bronze Age

  • Bronze Age Textiles of the Caspian Sea Maritime Steppes
    Natalia I. Shishlina, Valery P. Golikov, and Olga V. Orfinskaya
  • The Eurasian Steppes: The Transition from Early Urbanism to Nomadism
    Elena Kuzmina
  • Sintashta Burials and their Western European Counterparts
    Karlene Jones-Bley
  • The Sintashta "Chariots"
    Karlene Jones-Bley
  • Investigation of Bronze Age Metallurgical Slag
    S. A. Grigoryev


Part IV. The Iron Age

  • Historical and Archaeological Sources Relating to the Migration of Nomadic Peoples Toward Central and Southern Europe During the Imperial Age (1st - 5th centuries AD)
    Paolo de Vingo
  • Early Iron Age Pastoral Nomadism in the Great Hungarian Plains: Migration or Assimilation? The Thraco-Cimmerian Problem Revisited
    Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
  • Intercultural Relations among Eurasian Pastoral Nomads: The Case of Northern Fennoscandia
    Kjell-Åke Aronsson and Sven-Donald Hedman
  • A Comparative Study of the Early Iron Age Cultures in the Lower Volga and the Southern Urals Regions
    Maria A. Otchir-Goriaeva
  • Iron Age Ceramics of the Transurals
    Svetlana Sharapova
  • Looted Graves or Burials Without Bodies?
    Ann-Marie Kroll
  • Enarees and Women of High Status: Evidence of Ritual at Tillya Tepe (Northern Afghanistan)
    Jeannine Davis-Kimball
  • From a Settled Way of Life to Nomadism
    N. B. Vinogradov and V. Epimakhov
  • Variants in Models of Transition: The Cimmerian Traditions of the Gordion Tumuli (Phrygia): Found in the Altai Barrows (Bashadar, Pazyryk)
    Leonid Marsadolov
  • "Animal Style" and Shamanism: Problems of Pictoral Tradition in Northern in Central Asia
    Burchard Brentjes
  • Post-Mortem Trepanations in Central Asia: Types and Trends
    Maria Mednikova
  • Mummification and Body Processing: Evidence from the Iron Age in Southern Siberia
    Eileen M. Murphy
  • The Origins of the "Geometric Style" in Hsiung nu Art
    Sergey Minyaev
  • The Origins of Horse riding and the Development of Ancient Central Asian Nomadic Riding Harnesses
    N. A. Bokovenko
  • Petroglyphs and Sacred Spaces at Terekty Aulie, Central Kazakstan
    Kenneth Lymer