The emergence of the Scythians: Bronze Age to Iron Age in South Siberia
The Minusinsk Basin is located where China, Mongolia, Siberia and Kazakhstan meet. Enclosed, but broad, and rich in copper and other minerals, the valley offers missing links between the prehistory of China and that of the greater Russian steppes. In the late Bronze Age the material from Minusinsk w...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0003598x00094461 2024-09-15T18:38:29+00:00 The emergence of the Scythians: Bronze Age to Iron Age in South Siberia Legrand, Sophie 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00094461 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X00094461 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antiquity volume 80, issue 310, page 843-859 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 journal-article 2006 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00094461 2024-08-07T04:04:06Z The Minusinsk Basin is located where China, Mongolia, Siberia and Kazakhstan meet. Enclosed, but broad, and rich in copper and other minerals, the valley offers missing links between the prehistory of China and that of the greater Russian steppes. In the late Bronze Age the material from Minusinsk was important for the origins of bronze metallurgy in China, and in the Iron Age the area was a focus for the development of that equestrian mobility which was to become the elite way of life for much of the Eurasian steppe for more than a millennium. We are privileged to publish the following two papers deriving from research at the Institute for the History of Material Culture at Saint Petersburg, which give us the story so far on the archaeology of this remarkable place. In The emergence of the Karasuk culture Sophie Legrand discusses the people who occupied the Minusinsk Basin in the Bronze Age, and in The emergence of the Tagar culture , Nikolai Bokovenko introduces us to their successors, the horsemen and barrow-builders of the first millennium BCE. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tagar culture Siberia Cambridge University Press Antiquity 80 310 843 859 |
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The Minusinsk Basin is located where China, Mongolia, Siberia and Kazakhstan meet. Enclosed, but broad, and rich in copper and other minerals, the valley offers missing links between the prehistory of China and that of the greater Russian steppes. In the late Bronze Age the material from Minusinsk was important for the origins of bronze metallurgy in China, and in the Iron Age the area was a focus for the development of that equestrian mobility which was to become the elite way of life for much of the Eurasian steppe for more than a millennium. We are privileged to publish the following two papers deriving from research at the Institute for the History of Material Culture at Saint Petersburg, which give us the story so far on the archaeology of this remarkable place. In The emergence of the Karasuk culture Sophie Legrand discusses the people who occupied the Minusinsk Basin in the Bronze Age, and in The emergence of the Tagar culture , Nikolai Bokovenko introduces us to their successors, the horsemen and barrow-builders of the first millennium BCE. |
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The emergence of the Scythians: Bronze Age to Iron Age in South Siberia |
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The emergence of the Scythians: Bronze Age to Iron Age in South Siberia |
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