The emergence of the Scythians
Bronze Age to Iron Age in South Siberia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3379149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Legrand (Université Paris 8, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 310 |
| Pages | 843-859 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00094461 |
| OpenAlex | W2210597064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
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
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · China · Elite · Geography · Iron Age · Political science · Prehistory · Steppe · Stone Age · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History
Trade and Trauma Along the Silk Road, the Evidence from the Western Frontier of China and Mongolia (700 BC–420 AD)
Tianshanbeilu and the Isotopic Millet Road
Calibrated weighted permutation test detects ancient language connections in the Circumpolar area (Chukotian-Nivkh and Yukaghir-Samoyedic)
Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors
Reconstructing Equine Bridles in the Mongolian Bronze Age
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
The Nomad as State Builder
Movement across a ‘mountain barrier’
The spread of the domestic horse in northern China during the pre-Qin period and its influencing factors
Enlivening the bones
The spread of agriculture into northern Central Asia
A General Revision of the Chronology of the Tagisken North Burial Ground
Stable isotope dietary analysis of prehistoric populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia
Whence the Cimmerians Came? Transcontinental Communications of the Early Nomads in the Lights of the Origin of the Cimmerians
Environmental context and adaptations of prehistoric and early historical occupation in the Southern Altai (SW Siberia-East Kazakhstan)
Who Are the Anatolian Turks
Post-mortem mutilations of human bodies in Early Iron Age Kazakhstan and their possible meaning for rites of burial
The earliest Bronze Age culture of the south-eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Monumental Myopia
Equine cranial morphology and the identification of riding and chariotry in late Bronze Age Mongolia
A spectral cavalcade
China and the steppe
The honest labour of stone mounds
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,28 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |