[PDF] Nomads Of The Eurasian Steppes In The Early Iron Age eBook

Author : Joan Aruz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300085105

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Spectacular works of art were excavated between 1986 and 1990 from burial mounds at Filippovka, in Russia, on the border of Europe and Asia. The objects were created from about the fifth to the fourth century b.c. by pastoral people who lived on the steppes near the southern Ural Mountains. The large funerary deposits include wooden, deerlike creatures with predatory mouths and elongated snouts and ears, overlaid with sheets of gold and silver, as well as gold attachments for wooden vessels and gold and silver luxury wares imported from Achaemenid Iran. These treasures are now in the collection of the Museum of Archaeology, Ufa, in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. These are among the issues addressed in this volume, the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that brings together the remarkable new material from Filippovka and, from the incomparably rich collections of the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg.

Author : Kenneth W. Harl
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 036972268X

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A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization. The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. Their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China and the Middle East. From a single region emerged a great many peoples—the Huns, the Mongols, the Magyars, the Turks, the Xiongnu, the Scythians, the Goths—all of whom went on to profoundly and irrevocably shape the modern world. In this new, comprehensive history, Professor Kenneth W. Harl vividly re-creates the lives and world of these often-forgotten peoples from their beginnings to the early modern age. Their brutal struggle to survive on the steppes bred a resilient, pragmatic people ever ready to learn from their more advanced neighbors. In warfare, they dominated the battlefield for over fifteen hundred years. Under charismatic rulers, they could topple empires and win their own.

Author : Claudia Gerling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 3110311216

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Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential migration as well as the diet and economy of the West Eurasian steppes communities during the 4th, the 3rd and the 1st Millennia BC are approached by applying isotope analysis, specifically 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δ15N and δ13C analyses. Adapting a combination of different isotopic systems to a study area of vast spatial and chronological dimension allowed a wide variety of questions to be answered and establishes the beginning of a database of biogeochemical data for the West Eurasian steppes. Besides the characterisation of mobility and subsistence patterns of the archaeological communities under discussion, attempts to identify possible Early Bronze Age migrations from the steppes to the steppe-like plains in parts of Eastern Europe were made, alongside an evaluation of the applicability of isotope analysis to this context.

Author : Shawn Armistead
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN :

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Cultural connections between the ancient Xiongnu and the Huns have been disputed for over a century. This disputed topic has been approached in the fields of history, anthropology, linguistics, genetics, and archaeology. Though evidence for previous claims to connections between the two groups of nomadic pastoralists has been scant, research into the topic over the last 20 years has been robust. New evidence for connections between them has come from the previously listed disciplines, but rarely in an integrated form. By taking a multidisciplinary approach to this research question, this paper attempts to integrate the results into a cohesive narrative to not only provide evidence of the existence of these cultural connections but also to provide a means by which those connections took shape. Beginning with a previously overlooked interpretation of the works of Roman diplomat Priscus, produced in the year 448/449 C.E., this work incorporates available evidence from outside of the field of history with this new interpretation. This work then analyzes the available body of outside evidence through the lens of Priscus' intended definition of the term "Scythian" to demonstrate that cultural connections between the two groups exist in the forms of language, material culture, and genetic relations. Furthermore, this work elaborates on the nature of aristocratic hierarchy on the ancient Eurasian Steppe to show that a mobile elite chosen from a small group of family lines linked individual groups through dynastic association. These links demonstrate the wider impact and importance of Steppe nomads in ancient history to the transmission of culture between the power centers of the ancient world. By integrating evidence from a multidisciplinary perspective with the evidence that can be extracted by careful examination of ancient textual sources, this project proves that links between the ancient Xiongnu and Huns can no longer be disputed. This opens the door to future research elaborating on the nature of dynastic power of the cultures and peoples on the ancient Eurasian Steppe.

Author : Katheryn M. Linduff
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :

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This collection of original essays presents an in-depth look at the archaeology of the Eurasian steppe--from China to Europe--and the evidence of gender roles in ancient nomadic societies.

Author : Ludmila Koryakova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139461656

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This book is the first synthesis of the archaeology of the Urals and Western Siberia. It presents a comprehensive overview of the late prehistoric cultures of these regions, which are of key importance for the understanding of long-term changes in Eurasia. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, the Urals and Western Siberia are characterized by great environmental and cultural diversity which is reflected in the variety and richness of their archaeological sites. Based on the latest achievements of Russian archaeologists, this study demonstrates the temporal and geographical range of its subjects starting with a survey of the chronological sequence from the late fourth millennium BC to the early first millennium AD. Recent discoveries contribute to an understanding of issues such as the development of Eurasian metallurgy, technological and ritual innovations, pastoral nomadism and its role in Eurasian interactions, and major sociocultural fluctuations of the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Author : Kenneth W. Harl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1526630419

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An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world. 'A rollercoaster of historical narration' History Today 'This is a history of epic scope that brings together the empires of the steppe land with the caravan cities of the Silk Road and imperial China' Martyn Rady, author of The Middle Kingdoms 'A sweeping account of for[Bokinfo].

Author : Marsha Levine
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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The nomadic peoples of the great grasslands of the former USSR have left little in the way of settlement evidence, and archaeologists studying their history have had to rely on environmental remains to reconstruct their pasts. This book contains three major studies: The origins of horse husbandry on the Eurasian Steppe (M Levine); The eneolithic of the Black Sea Steppe: The dynamics of cultural and economic development 4500-2300 BC (Y Rassamakin), and The Eastern Ural steppe at the end of the Stone Age (A Kislenko and N Tatarintseva) . Each presents evidence that has not previously been available to European prehistorians. The whole provides an important contribution to European prehistory, and provides background to the ongoing discussions on the prehistory of language.