Introduction by Dr Alekseev • 1. First discoveries in Siberia during the reign of Peter the Great, Elena Korolkova • 2. Early archaeological findings from Siberia, Konstantin Chugunov • 3. People in the landscape, Svetlana Pankova • 4. Eating, drinking and the way of life, Svetlana Pankova • 5. Riding and transport, hunting and war, Elena Stepanova • 6. Death, Elena Korolkova & Svetlana Pankova • 7. Cultural contacts and impact, Svetlana Pankova • 8. Legacy, Svetlana Pankova & Nikolaev
Takes readers on a journey from antiquity to modern archaeology to tell the story of the Scythians, the great nomadic civilization that flourished in southern Siberia from 900-400 BC.
Dr St John Simpson is a senior curator and archaeologist in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, London, and has excavated widely in the Middle East and Central Asia. His previous publications include Afghanistan: A Cultural History (2012) and Looted, Recovered, Returned: Antiquities from Afghanistan (2014).
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