- Introduction
- Jeannine Davis-Kimball
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- Scythian Triad and Scythian World
- Leonid T. Yablonsky
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- Some Current Problems Concerning the History of Early Iron Age Eurasian Steppe Nomadic Societies
- Vladimir A. Bashilov and Leonid T. Yablonsky
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- Some Notes About the Material Culture of Eurasian Nomads
- Ludmila Koryakova
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- Iron Age Nomadic Burials of the Eurasian Steppe: A Discussion Exploring Burial Ritual Complexity
- Bryan Hanks
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- Ancient Sanctuaries of the Aral and Caspian Regions: A Reconstruction of their History
- Valery S. Olkhovskiy
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- Excavations of the Aksai Kurgans in the Volga-Don Region (Russia)
- A. N. Dyachenko, A.S. Skripkin, V.M. Klepikov, A.I. Kubyshkin, and A. Mabe
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- Burials and Settlements at the Eurasian Crossroads: Joint Franco-Russian Project
- Ludmila Koryakova and Marie-Yvane Daire
- With assistance of Patrice Courtaud, Esther Gonzalez, Andrew Kovrigin1, Luic Languet, Dominique Marguerie, Dmitry Razhev, Svetlana Sharapova, and Marie-Celine Uge
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- The Environment of Iron Age Burials and Settlements at the Eurasian Crossroads (Urals, Russia): Preliminary Results of the Charcoal Analysis of Anthropogenic Fires
- Dominique Marguerie and Nancy Marcoux
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- The Kazakh-American Talgar Project Archaeological Field Surveys in the Talgar and Turgen-Asi Areas of Southeastern Kazakhstan; 1997-1999
- Claudia Chang and Perry A. Tourtellotte
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- The Beiram Mound: A Nomadic Cultic Site in the Altai Mountains (Western Mongolia)
- Jeannine Davis-Kimball
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- Bronze Age Textiles of the Caspian Sea Maritime Steppes
- Natalia I. Shishlina, Valery P. Golikov, and Olga V. Orfinskaya
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- The Eurasian Steppes: The Transition from Early Urbanism to Nomadism
- Elena Kuzmina
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- Sintashta Burials and their Western European Counterparts
- Karlene Jones-Bley
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- The Sintashta Chariots
- Karlene Jones-Bley
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- Historical and Archaeological Sources Relating to the Migration of Nomadic Peoples. Toward Central and Southern Europe During the Imperial Age (1st - 5th centuries AD)
- Paolo de Vingo
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- Early Iron Age Pastoral Nomadism in the Great Hungarian Plains:
- Migration or Assimilation? The Thraco-Cimmerian Problem Revisited
- Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
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- Intercultural Relations among Eurasian Pastoral Nomads: The Case of Northern Fennoscandia
- KjellÅke Aronsson and SvenDonald Hedman
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- A Comparative Study of the Early Iron Age Cultures in the Lower Volga and the Southern Urals Regions
- Maria A. Otchir-Goriaeva
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- Iron Age Ceramics of the Transurals
- Svetlana Sharapova
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- Looted Graves or Burials Without Bodies?
- Ann-Marie Kroll
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- Enarees and Women of High Status: Evidence of Ritual at Tillya Tepe (Northern Afghanistan)
- Jeannine Davis-Kimball
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- From a Settled Way of Life to Nomadism
- N. B. Vinogradov and V. Epimakhov
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- Variants in Models of Transition: The Cimmerian Traditions of the Gordion Tumuli (Phrygia): Found in the Altai Barrows (Bashadar, Pazyryk)
- Leonid Marsadolov
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- Animal Style and Shamanism: Problems of Pictoral Tradition in Northern in Central Asia
- Burchard Brentjes
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- Post-Mortem Trepanations in Central Asia: Types and Trends
- Maria Mednikova
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- Mummification and Body Processing: Evidence from the Iron Age in Southern Siberia
- Eileen M. Murphy
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- The Origins of the Geometric Style in Hsiung nu Art
- Sergey Minyaev
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- The Origins of Horse riding and the Development of Ancient Central Asian Nomadic Riding Harnesses
- N. A. Bokovenko
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- Petroglyphs and Sacred Spaces at Terekty Aulie, Central Kazakstan
- Kenneth Lymer
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