Author : Emma C. Bunker
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300096887
This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.
Author : Peter Hupfauf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 24,51 MB
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1040033024
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultures of the Eurasian steppe, and investigates its possible influence on Central and Northern European art. A wide range of individual cultures are "visited" and their historic, cultural, and geographic specifics are explored. The survey in this book is based on a chronological structure, including an East-West geographic direction. This accommodates to position described artefacts of certain styles within time periods, cultures, and locations. Most of the existing literature related to cultures of the Eurasian steppe is specialised on one particular culture or one archaeological excavation. The book is written as a hypothetical journey through time and space, structured in an east to west direction. It provides a wide-reaching overview by placing the discussed artefacts into a cultural, geographic, and chronologic frame, particularly the thousand years between 500 BC and 500 AD. Artistic expression and style are a central theme to explore possible relationships between civilisations of the Eurasian steppe and their influence on medieval Central and Northern European creation of artefacts. Academics in the fields of art history, archaeology, history, and fine arts will find this book compelling/useful.
Author : Joan Aruz
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Scythian
ISBN : 1588392058
Author : Warwick Ball
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474488068
The history of movement across the Eurasian steppe since prehistory and its effect on Europe
Author : Svetlana Pankova
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789696488
This book presents 45 papers presented at a major international conference held at the British Museum during the 2017 BP exhibition 'Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia'. Papers include new archaeological discoveries, results of scientific research and studies of museum collections, most presented in English for the first time.
Author : Marinus J.A. Werger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400738862
Steppes form one of the largest biomes. Drastic changes in steppe ecology, land use and livelihoods came with the emergence, and again with the collapse, of communist states. Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in nomadic pastoralism in the Soviet Union and China and in severely degraded steppe ecosystems. In Mongolia nomadic pastoralism persisted, but steppes degraded because of strongly increased livestock loads. After the Soviet collapse steppes regenerated on huge tracts of fallow land. Presently, new, restorative steppe land management schemes are applied. On top of all these changes come strong effects of climate change in the northern part of the steppe zone. This book gives an up-to-date overview of changes in ecology, climate and use of the entire Eurasian steppe area and their effects on livelihoods of steppe people. It integrates knowledge that so far was available only in a spectrum of locally used languages.
Author : Emma C. Bunker
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 1997-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
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.
Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199689172
The story of the peoples of Eurasia, from the birth of farming to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. An immense historical panorama set on a huge continental stage, this is also the story of how humans first started building the global system we know today.
Author : Esther Jacobson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004098565
This volume offers a detailed consideration of the style, technology, and iconographic implications of the art of the Scythians, organized by object typology and chronology, and considered against a broader historical, expressive, and technical background; that of the Scythians' Eurasian sources, of earlier and contemporary West Asian cultures, and of the Hellenic culture which emerged beside that of the Scythians in the northern littoral of the Black Sea.
Author : Caspar Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 019968233X
Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
