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Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Adv, 2021
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
europepmc   +3 more sources

Pottery vessels from a collective burial in the mound of the Pazyryk Culture (Northern Altai) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Funeral structures of the population of Bystryanka culture (Scythian-Saka time, northern foothills of Altai)

open access: yesNorthern Archives and Expeditions, 2020
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

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Saka ‘Animal Style’ in Context: Material, Technology, Form and Use

open access: yesArts, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

A Rare Belt Plaque in Zoomorphic Style from the Inner Tien Shan

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Small Gumarovo Kurgans of Scythian-Sarmatian Time at South Ural: Chronology, Features of the Funeral Rites and Issues of Cultural Attribution

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

A chronology of the Scythian antiquities of Eurasia based on new archaeological and C-14 data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
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
core   +8 more sources

Tsars and the tsarina of a Scythian royal Aleksandropol’sky kurgan (polo-age structure of buried) [PDF]

open access: yesАнтичный мир и археология, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

Weights and Measurement Units in Khotanese [PDF]

open access: yesمجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2019
. 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
doaj   +1 more source

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