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Book Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes

Download or read book Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes written by Emma C. Bunker and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes

Download or read book Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes written by Emma C. Bunker and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The artistic exchange between the pastoral peoples and their settled Chinese neighbors through trade, migration, marriage alliances, and warfare contributed to the cultural development of both groups. This book chronicles that exchange and tells of the legacy of their art, with iconographic analyses and detailed descriptions of nearly two hundred artifacts." "The objects, a recent gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, are drawn from the distinguished collection of Eugene V. Thaw, with additional works selected from other New York collections and from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age

Download or read book Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in the Early Iron Age written by Jeannine Davis-Kimball and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Deer of Eurasia

Download or read book The Golden Deer of Eurasia written by Joan Aruz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2006 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eurasian Steppe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warwick Ball
  • Publisher : EUP
  • Release : 2021-10-31
  • ISBN : 9781474488044
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book The Eurasian Steppe written by Warwick Ball and published by EUP. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From nomadic peoples to conquering empires, from tales of Amazon women to art nouveau, and from golden grave goods to the formation of countries that still exist today, Ball shows how the steppe has continually shaped Europe's destiny.

Book Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes

Download or read book Treasures of the Eurasian Steppes written by Tina Pang and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of the Eurasian Steppe

Download or read book The Art of the Eurasian Steppe written by Peter Hupfauf and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Masters of the Steppe  The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia

Download or read book Masters of the Steppe The Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia written by Svetlana Pankova and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Foundations of Empire

Download or read book Foundations of Empire written by Gary Seaman and published by Ethnographics Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change

Download or read book Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change written by Reuven Amitai and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger—“barbarians,” in fact—their impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social, demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian civilizations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs, technologies, and physical artifacts, nomads were frequently active contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their active choices and initiatives helped set the cultural and intellectual agenda of the lands they ruled and beyond. This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads played the role of “agents of cultural change.” The beginning chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played in the history of the Old World. It conveys a sense of the complex and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as active promoters of cultural exchange within a vast and varied region. It makes available important original scholarship on the new turn in the study of the Mongol empire and on relations between the nomadic and sedentary worlds.

Book Ancient Nomads of the Eurasian and North American Grasslands

Download or read book Ancient Nomads of the Eurasian and North American Grasslands written by Elena Ponomarenko and published by Canadian Museum of History. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomadic lifestyles dependent on herd animals developed independently on the grasslands of Eurasia and North America about 5,000 years ago. The landscapes that these peoples occupied were generally similar, but the basis of their nomadism was quite different. Eurasian steppe nomads relied on domestic sheep, goats, cattle and horses for their subsistence and on horses, cattle and, to a limited extent, camels for their travel; North American prairie nomads relied on wild bison for subsistence and on themselves and dogs for travel. In comparing the two lifestyles, this study shows that certain features, such as the use of circular portable dwellings, seasonal rhythms of movement, and minimalist material cultures, were quite similar; but other features, such as the use of metals, access to urban civilizations, the nature and scale of warfare, and overall population sizes, were very different. Yet, both kinds of nomadism dominated their respective landscapes until being supplanted by European or EuroAmerican expansionism between about 300 to 150 years ago.

Book Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change

Download or read book Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change written by Reuven Amitai and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions. This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore how nomads played the role of 'agents of cultural change.'

Book The Metal Road of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe

Download or read book The Metal Road of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe written by Jianhua Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first to systematically explore cultural interactions between the Northern Zone of China and the Eurasian Steppe, with a focus on the formation process of the Xiongnu Confederation and the Silk Road. Combining partition and staging analyses, the authors adopt a broad perspective, viewing the Northern Zone as part of the Eurasian Steppe and combining history with culture by investigating the spread of bronze artifacts. In addition, with more than three hundred figures and color photographs, it offers readers a uniquely grand panorama of two thousand years of cultural interactions between the Northern Zone of China and the Eurasian Steppe.

Book Nomads and Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sören Stark
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Nomads and Networks written by Sören Stark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, March 7-June 3, 2012.

Book Art of the Steppes

Download or read book Art of the Steppes written by Karl Jettmar and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scythian Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Georges Charrière
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Scythian Art written by Georges Charrière and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia

Download or read book Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia written by Bryan K. Hanks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.