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Situating Eurasia in Antiquity: Nomadic Material Culture in the First Millennium BCE
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The cultures and societies of ancient Eurasia are rarely given prominence in their own right. Too often, the region is treated as a crossroads of goods and ideas originating in the sedentary states to the south of the steppe. In many respects, the marginalization of Eurasia as an engine of history goes back to literary traditions penned by sedentary outsiders who described the diverse inhabitants of the steppe as stereotyped barbarian nomads, lacking the major achievements of city-based civilization. The following Special Issue of Arts aims to reevaluate the cultural dynamics of ancient Eurasia by exploring ritual and everyday material practices beyond the purview of literary representation. The contributions are structured around case studies focusing on the distinctive archaeological and artistic legacies of the Eurasian steppe in the first millennium BCE, from the permafrost tombs of the Altai mountains to the kurgans and hillfort sites of the northern Black Sea region. Dealing with exciting new discoveries as well as legacy data, “Situating Eurasia in Antiquity” develops a framework that highlights the varied forms of organization in the region by calling on evidence of mobility and interaction and the generative role of material culture in shaping social relations.
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Keywords
- akinakai
- Altai
- animal art
- animal style
- axes
- Boris Mozolevsky
- ceremonial weaponry
- child burial
- Climate
- Coins
- Colonization
- Crimea
- daggers
- depopulation
- dialogics
- early Scythian goldwork
- elements of funeral costume and accessories
- epigraphic culture
- epigraphic mode
- Eurasian nomads
- first half of the 6th century BCE
- Forest-Steppe Scythia
- funerary rites
- funerary ritual
- Glinishche
- gold technology
- goldsmithing
- greaves
- Greco-Scythian art
- Greco-Scythian metalwork
- Greeks
- headdress
- heterarchy
- horse herding
- Jewelry
- jewelry production
- landscape adaptation
- Leather
- meshes
- Milesians
- monetisation
- mortuary practices
- multivalency
- n/a
- North Black Sea area
- North Pontic area
- Northern Pontic region
- Olbia
- Panticapaeum necropolis
- Pazyryk Culture
- pectoral
- Production
- protective armament
- protectorate
- raiding
- Reconstruction
- reconstruction options
- right and left tributaries of the Dnipro River
- Scythian
- Scythian culture
- Scythians
- Siberia
- Skorobir necropolis
- slaving
- societal complexity
- stone stelae
- Swords
- tamga signs
- the Bosporan Kingdom
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- Tiberii Iulii
- Tovsta Mohyla
- trade
- treasure
- Vettersfelde/Witaszkowo
- Visibility
- votives
- Weapons
- women’s elite burials
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-7258-1934-8Editions