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 Volga-Don area, and the Yamna and Catacomb cultures of the Russian stepe are hardly known to a non-Russian audience. This book presents for the first time in English, a study of the Bronze Age graves and grave goods from 44 cemeteries in the area. With the main emphasis on the pottery, more than half of the volume comprises a catalogue, although the introductory chapters set the evidence within its archaeological context and outline the pottery typology and analyses. Bringing material such as this to a wider audience can only be a good thing.