The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications): Perspectives on the ... Symposia (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) - Softcover

Aruz, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300124031 ISBN 13: 9780300124033

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The twenty essays in this book originated from a Metropolitan Museum symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition "The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes" (2000-2001). Texts by prominent scholars include: "The Prehistory of Scythian Cavalry: The Evolution of Fighting on Horseback" by David W. Anthony; "Steppe Nomadic Culture and Political Organization" by Thomas J. Barfield; "Mobility, Art, and Identity in Early Iron Age Europe and Asia" by Peter S. Wells; "The Gold of the Griffins: Recent Excavation of a Frozen Tomb in Kazakhstan" by Henri-Paul Francfort, Giancarlo Ligabue, and Zainullah Samashev; and "Discovery of a Royal Burial of the Scythian Period in Tuva" by Konstantin V. Chugunov, Anatolii Nagler, and Hermann Parzinger.

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Aruz is curator in charge and Elisabetta Valty Fino is curator in the department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ann Farkas is professor emerita, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300124031
• ISBN 13: 9780300124033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248