Table of Contents:
Foreword – Hartwig Fischer ;
Foreword – Mikhail Piotrovsky ;
Preface and acknowledgements – Svetlana V. Pankova, St John Simpson ;
Introduction ;
The Sasanian and Gupta empires and their struggle against the Huns – T. Bakker ;
Supersize me: political aspects of monumental tomb building in early steppe empires – Thomas J. Barfield ;
Saka 'Animal Style': the 'mysterious picture' on a carved bone container from central Kazakhstan – Arman Z. Beisenov ;
A Scythian treasure in the lands of the Getae: considerations regarding the hoard of Stânceti – Alexandru Berzovan ;
Interactions between mobile pastoralists and settled agricultural societies in central Asia: examples from the work of the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) – Nikolaus Boroffka ;
The Arzhan-2 'royal' funerary-commemorative complex: stages of function and internal chronology – Konstantin V. Chugunov ;
Scythian archers of the 4th century BC: a new archaeological study of excavated bows, arrows and quivers from the northern Black Sea region – Marina Daragan ;
Fabergé and the gold making tradition in Russia – Caroline de Guitaut, LVO ;
Scythians, Persians, Greeks and horses: reflections on art, culture, power and empires in the light of frozen burials and other excavations – Henri-Paul Francfort;
Textiles, dyes and pigments of the European Scythians: preliminary analyses of materials from southern Ukraine – Margarita Gleba, Ina Vanden Berghe, Marina Daragan;
Scythian gold from 19th century private collections in the Department of the Ancient World in the State Hermitage Museum – O. Gorskaya ;
Scientific study of the etching process used on ancient carnelian beads – Clément Holé, Aude Mongiatti, St John Simpson ;
Trade, community and labour in the Pontic Iron Age forest-steppe region, c. 700–200 BC – James A. Johnson ;
The predator scene in Scythian 'Animal Style' as a socio-political indicator – Vladimir A. Kisel ;
'Animal Style' art: influences and traditions in the nomadic world – Elena Korolkova ;
To accompany and honour the deceased: the horses from the graves of the Pazyryk culture – Sébastien Lepetz, K. Debue, D. Batsukh ;
The royal *gaunaka: dress, identity, status and ceremony in Achaemenid Iran – Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ;
Scythian archery – Mike Loades ;
A priestly burial from the Taksai-1 cemetery – Yana Lukpanova ;
The Okunev culture: a unique Siberian civilisation and its links with Scythian and later cultures – Leonid S. Marsadolov ;
Scientific analyses of some glass beads from Scythian and later sites in southern Siberia – Andrew Meek, Nikolai N. Nikolaev, St John Simpson ;
Petroglyphs of the Scythian period in the Oglakhty mountains (Republic of Khakassia, Russia): new materials and problems of attribution – Elena Miklashevich ;
Scythian and Sarmatian weapons with gold decoration – Raphael S. Minasyan ;
Gold of Peter the Great: Scythian goldsmithing techniques – Aude Mongiatti, Elena Korolkova ;
Life and death in the Scythian world of southern Siberia: a social bioarchaeological study of the mobile pastoralists from Aymyrlyg – Eileen Murphy, Yuri Chistov ;
Pazyryk horse masks of Gorny Altai – Maria Ochir–Goryaeva ;
Mummies and mannequins from the Oglakhty cemetery in southern Siberia – Svetlana V. Pankova ;
Textile finds from the central burials of the Arzhan-1 barrow in Tuva – Svetlana V. Pankova, Elena A. Mikolaychuk, Lyudmila S. Gavrilenko, Leonid S. Marsadolov ;
The Sarmatian conquest of the northern Pontic region: the state of the art of the problem – Sergei Polin ;
The royal Scythian Alexandropol kurgan based on new research data of 2004–2009 – Sergei Polin, Marina Daragan ;
New investigations of Scythian kurgans and their periphery in the lower Dnieper region: non-destructive measurements and archaeological proof – Sergej Polin, Marina Daragan, Kseniia Bondar ;
The formation of the early Scythian cultural complex of the Kelermes cemetery in the Kuban region of the north Caucasus – Tatyana V. Ryabkova ;
The results of new scientific analyses of gold bracelets from Taksai-1 and an iron sword from Issyk in the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan – A. K. Satubaldin, S. A. Yarygin, A. Mongiatti, D. O'Flynn, J. Lang ;
Secrets of Achaemenid production of personal ornaments and vessels – Ekaterina A. Shablavina ;
Jiang Yuan and north Chinese nomads – Daniil P. Shulga ;
Mysterious transformations of the Scythian cultures in the 6th and 3rd centuries BC – P. I. Shulga ;
Etched or bleached? Traded or copied? Comments on the dating and distribution of a distinctive type of decorated carnelian bead found from India to Eurasia from the early 1st millennium BC to the early medieval period – St John Simpson ;
In hoc signo vinces: the victory of the Scythians over the offspring of their slaves as a manifestation of divine providence (Herodotus, The Histories 4.1 [3], 3, 4) – Nikolay Yu. Smirnov ;
Testing Herodotus: leather species identification of Scythian quivers using new scientific methods – Luke Spindler, Margarita Gleba, Marina Daragan, Matthew Collins;
Saddles of the Hun-Sarmatian period – Elena V. Stepanova;
The wooden comb of the 'golden lady': a new battle image from the Taksai-1 kurgan (western Kazakhstan) – Lâtife Summerer, Yana Lukpanova ;
Finds from the Noin-Ula kurgans at an exhibition in Berlin in 1929 (based on materials from the archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the History of Material Culture) – Natalia A. Sutiagina, Daria A. Kukina ;
The Scythian empire: reassessing steppe power from western and eastern perspectives – Timothy Taylor, Christine M. Havlicek, Christopher I. Beckwith ;
Antennae of Scythian akinakai: from abstraction to realism, there and back again – Denis Topal;
Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas – Burzine Waghmar;
'Steppe Style' in southeast Gansu province (China) in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC – Raphael Wong;
Conclusions;
Bibliography;
Index.