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Title

Sarmatians : history and archaeology of a forgotten people / Eszter Istvánovits, Valéria Kulcsár ; English translation: Magdaléna Seleanu.

Author

Istvánovits, Eszter

Publication

• Mainz : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Kulcsár, Valéria
• Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Description

ix, 491 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 31 cm.

Summary

The book's aim is to make a comprehensive introduction of the Sarmatians, the crucial people in the world of Iranian language speaking nomads. The first part of the volume deals with the history and archaeology of these tribes starting from their emergence to the Hunnic invasion after which Iranian domination of the steppe belt was replaced by the power of Turkic nomads. Based on literary sources and archaeological material, the second part synthetises the history of the Sarmatians in the Carpathian Basin from the 1st to 5th century AD. A special emphasis is put on the steppe relations of the Alföld Sarmatians, innovations brought by new migration waves and, their impact on the autochthonous population. The third part is an outlook to the afterlife of the Sarmatians the traces of which stretch out from Britain to China.

Series Statement

Monographien des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums, 0171-1474 ; Band 123

Uniform Title

Monographien (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz) ; Bd. 123.

Subjects

• Eurasia > Antiquities
• Sarmatians

Note

• At head of title: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Archäologie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN

• 9783884672372
• 3884672371

OCLC

• ocn988926536
• 988926536
• SCSB-8869108

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries