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 (en Inglés)
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Masters of the Steppe: the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia consists of 45 papers presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum in 2017 on the occasion of the BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia, both conference and exhibition being jointly organised with the State Hermitage Museum. There are 58 contributors and co-authors from 16 countries, mostly from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, but also America, Britain, France, Germany, China and Mongolia. The papers range from new archaeological discoveries, results of scientific research and studies of museum collections to reconstructions of social elites, the phenomenon of monumental tomb construction, and ‘Animal Style’ art. Most results are presented for the first time in the English language and they throw a completely new light on a huge range of aspects of the lives of Scythians and other ancient nomads of Eurasia, their horses, rock art and the working of precious metals, textiles and other materials.Table of ContentsForeword – Hartwig FischerForeword – Mikhail PiotrovskyPreface and acknowledgements – Svetlana V. Pankova, St John SimpsonIntroductionThe Sasanian and Gupta empires and their struggle against the Huns – T. BakkerSupersize me: political aspects of monumental tomb building in early steppe empires – Thomas J. BarfieldSaka ‘Animal Style’: the ‘mysterious picture’ on a carved bone container from central Kazakhstan – Arman Z. BeisenovA Scythian treasure in the lands of the Getae: considerations regarding the hoard of Stâncești – Alexandru BerzovanInteractions 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 BoroffkaThe Arzhan-2 ‘royal’ funerary-commemorative complex: stages of function and internal chronology – Konstantin V. ChugunovScythian archers of the 4th century BC: a new archaeological study of excavated bows, arrows and quivers from the northern Black Sea region – Marina DaraganFabergé and the gold making tradition in Russia – Caroline de Guitaut, LVOScythians, Persians, Greeks and horses: reflections on art, culture, power and empires in the light of frozen burials and other excavations – Henri-Paul FrancfortTextiles, dyes and pigments of the European Scythians: preliminary analyses of materials from southern Ukraine – Margarita Gleba, Ina Vanden Berghe, Marina DaraganScythian gold from 19th century private collections in the Department of the Ancient World in the State Hermitage Museum – O. GorskayaScientific study of the etching process used on ancient carnelian beads – Clément Holé, Aude Mongiatti, St John SimpsonTrade, community and labour in the Pontic Iron Age forest-steppe region, c. 700–200 BC – James A. JohnsonThe 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 KorolkovaTo accompany and honour the deceased: the horses from the graves of the Pazyryk culture – Sébastien Lepetz, K. Debue, D. BatsukhThe royal *gaunaka: dress, identity, status and ceremony in Achaemenid Iran – Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesScythian archery – Mike LoadesA priestly burial from the Taksai-1 cemetery – Yana LukpanovaThe Okunev culture: a unique Siberian civilisation and its links with Scythian and later cultures – Leonid S. MarsadolovScientific analyses of some glass beads from Scythian and later sites in southern Siberia – Andrew Meek, Nikolai N. Nikolaev, St John SimpsonPetroglyphs of the Scythian period in the Oglakhty mountains (Republic of Khakassia, Russia): new materials and problems of attribution – Elena MiklashevichScythian and Sarmatian weapons with gold decoration – Raphael S. MinasyanGold of Peter the Great: Scythian goldsmithing techniques – Aude Mongiatti, Elena KorolkovaLife and death in the Scythian world of southern Siberia: a social bioarchaeological study of the mobile pastoralists from Aymyrlyg – Eileen Murphy, Yuri ChistovPazyryk horse masks of Gorny Altai – Maria Ochir–GoryaevaMummies and mannequins from the Oglakhty cemetery in southern Siberia – Svetlana V. PankovaTextile finds from the central burials of the Arzhan-1 barrow in Tuva – Svetlana V. Pankova, Elena A. Mikolaychuk, Lyudmila S. Gavrilenko, Leonid S. MarsadolovThe Sarmatian conquest of the northern Pontic region: the state of the art of the problem – Sergei PolinThe royal Scythian Alexandropol kurgan based on new research data of 2004–2009 – Sergei Polin, Marina DaraganNew investigations of Scythian kurgans and their periphery in the lower Dnieper region: non-destructive measurements and archaeological proof – Sergej Polin, Marina Daragan, Kseniia BondarThe formation of the early Scythian cultural complex of the Kelermes cemetery in the Kuban region of the north Caucasus – Tatyana V. RyabkovaThe 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. LangSecrets of Achaemenid production of personal ornaments and vessels – Ekaterina A. ShablavinaJiang Yuan and north Chinese nomads – Daniil P. ShulgaMysterious transformations of the Scythian cultures in the 6th and 3rd centuries BC – P. I. ShulgaEtched 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 SimpsonIn 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. SmirnovTesting Herodotus: leather species identification of Scythian quivers using new scientific methods – Luke Spindler, Margarita Gleba, Marina Daragan, Matthew CollinsSaddles of the Hun-Sarmatian period – Elena V. StepanovaThe wooden comb of the ‘golden lady’: a new battle image from the Taksai-1 kurgan (western Kazakhstan) – Lâtife Summerer, Yana LukpanovaFinds 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. KukinaThe Scythian empire: reassessing steppe power from western and eastern perspectives – Timothy Taylor, Christine M. Havlicek, Christopher I. BeckwithAntennae of Scythian akinakai: from abstraction to realism, there and back again – Denis TopalSettled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas – Burzine Waghmar‘Steppe Style’ in southeast Gansu province (China) in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC – Raphael WongConclusionsBibliographyIndex
