Research Catalog

Title

Ancient bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian steppes : from the Arthur M. Sackler collections / Emma C. Bunker ; with Trudy S. Kawami, Katheryn M. Linduff, Wu En.

Author

Bunker, Emma C.

Publication

New York : Arthur M. Sackler Foundation : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kawami, Trudy S., 1944-
• Linduff, Katheryn M.
• Wu, En.
• Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
• Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.

Description

401 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 31 cm.

Summary

"Lavishly illustrated, Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes is the first major volume devoted to the study of the art of the Northern Zone. It includes a dramatic account of the Western medical workers and teachers who first collected these works early in the twentieth century, as well as an up-to-date account of Chinese excavations in the area, based on notes by the eminent Chinese archeologist Wu En. Mr. Wu is himself descended from these peoples. Diagrams and photographs of recently opened tombs are of special interest, and full metallurgical analyses of many pieces are provided, along with an appendix of forgeries that will be of inestimable value to scholars, collectors, and dealers."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Sackler, Arthur M. > Catalogs
• Arthur M. Sackler Museum > Catalogs
• Bronzes, Ancient > Asia, Central > Catalogs

Genre/Form

• Catalogs
• Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-370) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / by Elizabeth A. Sackler and Else Sackler -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / by Emma C. Bunker -- An archaeological overview / by Katheryn M. Linduff. Reconstructing frontier cultures from archaeological evidence ; The emergence of nomadic pastoralism ; The rise of tribal confederacies: the Xiongnu and Xianbei -- The formation of the collection / by Trudy S. Kawami -- Catalogue / by Emma C. Bunker. The bronze age in northwestern China ; The bronze age in northeastern China ; The bronze age of the far north ; The iron age in northeastern China ; The iron age in northern Hebei ; The iron age in south central Inner Mongolia ; Northwestern China and southwestern Inner Mongolia ; The iron age in northwestern China: Ningxia and Gansu ; The Xiongnu period in northern China ; The Xiongnu period in Mongolia, Buryatia and southern Siberia ; Xianbei artifacts from the northern zone ; The eastern Eurasian Steppes ; Chinese artifacts attributed to the Steppes -- Appendices. Some Xianbei sites / by Wu En ; Technical studies and metal compositional analysis of bronzes from the eastern Eurasian Steppes / by W. T. Chase and J. G. Douglas ; Northern zone forgeries / by Emma C. Bunker ; Bibliography for selected sites / by Emma C. Bunker, Trudy S. Kawami, Katheryn M. Linduff and Wu En ; Compartmented stamp seals / by Trudy S. Kawami -- Gazetteer / by Emma C. Bunker -- Bibliography -- Concordance -- Index -- Photo credits and production notes.

ISBN

0810963485

LCCN

^^^97071766^

OCLC

• 37832728
• SCSB-10216503

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library