Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and Settlements
Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Eileen M. Murphy, Ludmila Koryakova, Leonid T. Yablonksy
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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