Research Catalog

Title

Foundations of empire : archaeology and art of the Eurasian Steppes / edited by Gary Seaman.

Publication

• Los Angeles, California : Ethnographics Press, Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California, [1992].
• ©1992

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Details

Additional Authors

Seaman, Gary, 1942-

Description

xiii, 233 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the Soviet-American academic symposia in conjunction with the museum exhibitions, Nomads: Masters of the Eurasian Steppe ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the Soviet-American academic symposia in conjunction with the museum exhibition, Nomads; Masters of the Eurasian Steppe ; v. 3.

Subject

• Steppe archaeology > Congresses
• Archaeology > Eurasia > Congresses
• Art, Central Asian > Congresses
• Nomads > Eurasia > Congresses
• Art de l'Asie centrale > Congrès
• Archéologie des steppes > Congrès
• Archéologie > Eurasie > Congrès
• Nomades > Eurasie > Congrès
• Antiquities
• Art, Central Asian
• Art, Central Asian > Congresses
• Eurasia > Antiquities > Congresses
• Eurasia > Civilization > Congresses
• Asia, Central > Antiquities > Congresses
• Asia, Central > Civilization > Congresses
• Asie centrale > Civilisation > Congrès
• Central Asia
• Asia, Central > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, February 3-5, 1989; Denver Museum of Natural History, June 8-11, 1989; Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, November 16-17, 1989."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Symbolic structures as indicators of the cultural ecology of the early nomads / Esther Jacobson -- Theoretical considerations on the origin of pastoral nomadism / Maurizio Tosi -- Early nomadic pastoral tribes in Soviet central Asia during the first half of the first milennium AD / Natalya G. Gorbunova -- The steppes of the Aral Sea area in pre- & early Scythian times / Mariana A. Itina -- Asiatic steppe nomadic peoples in the Carpathian basin: a westward backwater of the Eurasian nomadic movement / Bruno Genito -- A reconsideration of Pazyryk / Karen Rubinson -- The Scythian harp and the Kazakh Kobyz / Vladmir N. Basilov -- The ancient harp of Pazyryk: a bowed instrument? / Bo Lawergren -- Turkic runic insriptions on monuments of south Siberia / Dimitriy D. Vasilyev -- Origin of the animal style in Saka representational art / Kimal A. Akishev
• Problems and methods of reconstructing prehistoric steppeland cloth and clothing / E.J.W. Barber -- The origins of the yurt: evidence from Chinese sources of the third century BC to the thirteenth century AD / Michael V. Kriukov, Vadim P. Kurylev -- The yurt in the traditional worldview of central Asian nomads / Nurila Zh. Shakhanova -- The style of filigree in the Mongol era: pan-Eurasian afinities / Boris marshak -- The new style of filigree in the Mongol era: a problem of provenance / Mark G. Kramarovsky -- Gold belt plaques in the Siberian treasure of Peter the Great: dates, origins and iconography / Emma C. Bunker -- Pastoral and nomadic peoples in ethnic history / Dmitriy E. Eremeev, Irina M. Semashko.

ISBN

• 1878986023
• 9781878986023

LCCN

91070732

OCLC

• ocm27938780
• 27938780
• SCSB-1980348

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library