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It sets the Pazyryk Culture into the landscape using recent studies
on climate, technology, human and animal DNA, and local resources.
It shows that this was a powerful, semi-sedentary, interdependent
group with contacts in Eurasia to their west, and to their east in
Mongolia and south in China.
It sets the Pazyryk Culture into the landscape using recent studies
on climate, technology, human and animal DNA, and local resources.
It shows that this was a powerful, semi-sedentary, interdependent
group with contacts in Eurasia to their west, and to their east in
Mongolia and south in China.
Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender
on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are
archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and
eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research
in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of
gender roles in ancient-or modern-pastoralist societies, this book
helps to fill an empty niche in our understanding of how sexual
roles and identities have shaped and been shaped by such social and
cultural circumstances. Are All Warriors Male? is a groundbreaking
work that challenges current conceptions about the development of
human societies in this great cauldron of humanity.
The catalogue for the groundbreaking exhibition at New York
University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Nomads
and Networks presents an unparalleled overview of the sophisticated
culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the territory
of present-day Kazakhstan from roughly the middle of the first
millennium BCE to the early centuries CE. Focusing on material from
the Altai and Tianshan regions, Nomads and Networks explores the
specific conditions of mobile lifeways that resulted from
particular ecological conditions in the steppes and high valleys of
Inner Eurasia. Highlights of the exhibition are grave goods from
the burial mounds at the site of Berel and gold mortuary ornaments
from Shilikty, Zhalauli, and Kargaly. Attesting to a sophisticated
decorative art flourishing among these nomadic populations, the
objects skillfully combine older iconographic traditions of animal
style in the steppe with more recent influences from foreign
cultures--most notably Persia and China. Contributors include
Nursan Alimbai, Nikolay A. Bokovenko, Claudia Chang, Bryan K.
Hanks, Sagynbay Myrgabayev, Karen S. Rubinson, Zainolla S.
Samashev, Soren Stark, and Abdesh T. Toleubaev. Cover photograph
(c) Bruce M. White, 2016
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