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Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians. [PDF]
The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack of first-hand written records, little is known about the origins and relations among the different ...
Gnecchi-Ruscone GA +31 more
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Pottery vessels from a collective burial in the mound of the Pazyryk Culture (Northern Altai) [PDF]
In one of the barrows examined in 2007 at the site of Choburak-II (the territory of the Northern Altai), an intrusive, and not quite ordinary, a collective burial of people was found.
Tishkin A.A. +3 more
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The article presents the results of studying the orientation of buried in a certain sector of the horizon on the basis of materials from the excavations of the necropolises of the Bystryanka archaeological culture. Information about 168 burials investigated at 26 necropolises of the northern foothills of Altai of the Scythian-Saka period was used.
S.S. Radovsky, N.N. Seregin
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New Radiocarbon Dates from the Saka Time Settlements of Central Kazakhstan
The features of the settlements of the Saka time in Central Kazakhstan are studied on the basis of materials from more than 70 objects that have been discovered to date.
Beisenov Arman Z., Liu Yan, Cao Huihui
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The Saka ‘Animal Style’ in Context: Material, Technology, Form and Use
The Iron Age Saka population of the eastern Eurasian Steppe is considered one of the earliest of the Scythian groups to emerge at the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE, consequently producing some of the earliest expressions of ‘animal style’ art ...
Saltanat Amir, Rebecca C. Roberts
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A Rare Belt Plaque in Zoomorphic Style from the Inner Tien Shan
The article publishes a very rare for Saka culture of the Tien Shan region belt plaque, made with the Scythian-Siberian animal motif. It was accidentally found at an altitude of 2300 m.
Sergey S. Ivanov
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The article presents an analysis of the burial rite and chronology of the Gumarovo cemetery, located on the border of the steppe and mountain-steppe zones of the Southern Urals, at the southern tip of the almost completely forested low plateau Zilair ...
Nikita S. Savelev
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A chronology of the Scythian antiquities of Eurasia based on new archaeological and C-14 data [PDF]
The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data.
Alekseev, A.Y. +13 more
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Tsars and the tsarina of a Scythian royal Aleksandropol’sky kurgan (polo-age structure of buried) [PDF]
According to V.G. Moiseyev's new anthropological polo-age definitions, skulls from the Central tomb of the Aleksandropol’sky kurgan belong to the man enough advanced age for 50 years or more ("tsar"), and the young woman at  ...
Polin, Sergey Vasil’evich
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Weights and Measurement Units in Khotanese [PDF]
. Introduction There is not much information about the weights and measurement units that were used by Iranian people in ancient Iran. In the surviving texts of ancient Iranian languages, we do not find a lot of words that refer to weighing and measuring,
مجید طامه
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