Karen S Rubinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1202481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen S Rubinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubinson |
| SIGNATURE | RUBINSON K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6710-6908 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Horses in Pazyryk culture burials and their afterlife in China
Trans -continental migration is of central concern to proposals about the transmission of ideas, objects, and people in the ancient Eurasian world in the first millennium BCE ( Hanks, 2012 ; Cunliffe, 2019 , and others). Horses and the transport that they provided were central to making this contact possible. The focus of this paper is the Pazyryk Culture, dating from the late forth-third c. BCE, although we examine broader process of exchange by…
The Scythian Empire
A Distinct Form of Socio-Political and Economic Organization in the Pazyryk Culture
The Pazyryk Culture, situated in the Altai Mountains of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, flourished for a relatively short period: 5th–3rd centuries BCE. A series of burial grounds from the later phase, 4th–mid-3rd centuries BCE, to be studied here reveal the remains of three groups of individuals of high, mid, and lower status. Within the limiting topographical and environmental confines of the local region, in contrast to the vast grass…
Deer or Horses with Antlers? Wooden Figures Adorning Herders in the Altai
Among the burials of horse herders who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE Altai Mountains of South Siberia were some that contained small wooden figures of four-legged hoofed animals that represent horses, deer, or hybrid creatures. They decorated headgear buried with select commoners of the Pazyryk Culture. Although the people, material possessions, and horses of the elites were frequently ornamented with imagery often associated with the so-cal…
Why deer? Figural imagery and faunal remains in the Bronze Age South Caucasus
Deer were part of the domestic debris in the South Caucasus at least since the Early Bronze Age and were represented on Kura-Araxes ceramics in stylized form. In the Middle Bronze Age, deer remains appeared in burial contexts, both as faunal remains and visual representations. In the Late Bronze Age, deer hunted from chariots and also as single figures decorated devices that were attached to the yokes of the animals that pulled wheeled vehicles. …
Borders in Archaeology
The Pazyryk Culture
Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai
This book reconsiders the archaeology of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE, in light of recent scientific studies and excavations not only in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, together with new theories of landscape. Excavation of the Pazyryk burials sparked great interest because of their wealth of organic remains, including tattooed bodies and sacrificed horses, toge…
Progress, problems, and possibilities of GIS in the South Caucasus
In response to increased international collaboration in archaeological research of the South Caucases, a recent workshop has addressed important issues in applying GIS to the study of heavily modified landscapes in the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia
This chapter contains section titles: Introduction The Study of Gender in Early China The Eurasian Setting The Future of Gender Studies in Chinese and Eurasian Archaeology Notes References
Are All Warriors Male?
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 sexua…
Are all warriors male
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: The Nature of Nomads, Cultural Variation, and Gender Roles Past and Present Part 3 Part I: The Warrior Culture: Myth and Identity Chapter 4 1. Reconsidering Warfare, Status, and Gender in the Eurasian Steppe Iron Age Chapter 5 2. Arma Feminamque Cano: Warrior Women in the Indo-European World Chapter 6 3. Tillya Tepe: Aspects of Gender and Cultural Identity Part 7 Part II: Horses and the Gendering of Iden…
Otar Lordkipanidze, 1930-2002
A Mid-Second Millennium Tomb at Dinkha Tepe
A stone-built tomb excavated at Dinkha Tepe in Iranian Azerbaijan came from the last building level of the Bronze Age, Dinkha IV, phase D. This article examines the contents of the tomb, a multiple burial with relatively simple ceramics and a rich collection of jewelry and other personal ornaments. On the basis of 14C dates and typological parallels, the use of the tomb may be assigned to the 17th to 16th century B. C. The jewelry shows strong ti…
The Peoples of the Hills, Ancient Ararat and Caucasus
Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai
This book reconsiders the archaeology of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE, in light of recent scientific studies and excavations not only in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, together with new theories of landscape. Excavation of the Pazyryk burials sparked great interest because of their wealth of organic remains, including tattooed bodies and sacrificed horses, toge…
A Mid-Second Millennium Tomb at Dinkha Tepe
A stone-built tomb excavated at Dinkha Tepe in Iranian Azerbaijan came from the last building level of the Bronze Age, Dinkha IV, phase D. This article examines the contents of the tomb, a multiple burial with relatively simple ceramics and a rich collection of jewelry and other personal ornaments. On the basis of 14C dates and typological parallels, the use of the tomb may be assigned to the 17th to 16th century B. C. The jewelry shows strong ti…
The Peoples of the Hills, Ancient Ararat and Caucasus
A Mid-Second Millennium Tomb at Dinkha Tepe
A stone-built tomb excavated at Dinkha Tepe in Iranian Azerbaijan came from the last building level of the Bronze Age, Dinkha IV, phase D. This article examines the contents of the tomb, a multiple burial with relatively simple ceramics and a rich collection of jewelry and other personal ornaments. On the basis of 14C dates and typological parallels, the use of the tomb may be assigned to the 17th to 16th century B. C. The jewelry shows strong ti…
Otar Lordkipanidze, 1930-2002
Are All Warriors Male?
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 sexua…
Are all warriors male
Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: The Nature of Nomads, Cultural Variation, and Gender Roles Past and Present Part 3 Part I: The Warrior Culture: Myth and Identity Chapter 4 1. Reconsidering Warfare, Status, and Gender in the Eurasian Steppe Iron Age Chapter 5 2. Arma Feminamque Cano: Warrior Women in the Indo-European World Chapter 6 3. Tillya Tepe: Aspects of Gender and Cultural Identity Part 7 Part II: Horses and the Gendering of Iden…
Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia
This chapter contains section titles: Introduction The Study of Gender in Early China The Eurasian Setting The Future of Gender Studies in Chinese and Eurasian Archaeology Notes References
Progress, problems, and possibilities of GIS in the South Caucasus
In response to increased international collaboration in archaeological research of the South Caucases, a recent workshop has addressed important issues in applying GIS to the study of heavily modified landscapes in the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Borders in Archaeology
The Pazyryk Culture
Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai
This book reconsiders the archaeology of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE, in light of recent scientific studies and excavations not only in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, together with new theories of landscape. Excavation of the Pazyryk burials sparked great interest because of their wealth of organic remains, including tattooed bodies and sacrificed horses, toge…
Why deer? Figural imagery and faunal remains in the Bronze Age South Caucasus
Deer were part of the domestic debris in the South Caucasus at least since the Early Bronze Age and were represented on Kura-Araxes ceramics in stylized form. In the Middle Bronze Age, deer remains appeared in burial contexts, both as faunal remains and visual representations. In the Late Bronze Age, deer hunted from chariots and also as single figures decorated devices that were attached to the yokes of the animals that pulled wheeled vehicles. …
Deer or Horses with Antlers? Wooden Figures Adorning Herders in the Altai
Among the burials of horse herders who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE Altai Mountains of South Siberia were some that contained small wooden figures of four-legged hoofed animals that represent horses, deer, or hybrid creatures. They decorated headgear buried with select commoners of the Pazyryk Culture. Although the people, material possessions, and horses of the elites were frequently ornamented with imagery often associated with the so-cal…
A Distinct Form of Socio-Political and Economic Organization in the Pazyryk Culture
The Pazyryk Culture, situated in the Altai Mountains of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, flourished for a relatively short period: 5th–3rd centuries BCE. A series of burial grounds from the later phase, 4th–mid-3rd centuries BCE, to be studied here reveal the remains of three groups of individuals of high, mid, and lower status. Within the limiting topographical and environmental confines of the local region, in contrast to the vast grass…
The Scythian Empire
Horses in Pazyryk culture burials and their afterlife in China
Trans -continental migration is of central concern to proposals about the transmission of ideas, objects, and people in the ancient Eurasian world in the first millennium BCE ( Hanks, 2012 ; Cunliffe, 2019 , and others). Horses and the transport that they provided were central to making this contact possible. The focus of this paper is the Pazyryk Culture, dating from the late forth-third c. BCE, although we examine broader process of exchange by…
Archaeology (12 works) · History (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Art (5 works) · China (5 works) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)