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Pazyryk Culture Up In The Altai

This book reconsiders the archaeology of the Pazyryk, the horse-riding people of the Altai Mountains who lived in the 4th3rd centuries BCE, in light of recent scientific studies and excavations not only in Russia but also Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, together with new theories of landscape.

Excavation of the Pazyryk burials sparked great interest because of their wealth of organic remains, including tattooed bodies and sacrificed horses, together with superb wooden carvings and colorful textiles. In view of this new research, the role of the Pazyryk Culture in the ancient globalized world can now be more focused and refined. In this synthetic study of the region, the Pazyryk Culture is set into the landscape using recent studies on climate, technology, human and animal DNA and local resources. It shows that this was a powerful, semi-sedentary, interdependent group with contacts in Eurasia to their west, and to their east in Mongolia and south in China.

This book is for archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, social and economic historians as well as persons with general interests in mobile pastoralism, the emergence of complex societies, the social roles of artifacts and the diverse nature of an interconnected ancient world.

Katheryn M. Linduff is University Center for International Studies Professor Emerita in the Departments of Art History and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches at Carnegie-Mellon University in the School of Architecture. She has engaged for many years in art-historical research and collaborative fieldwork, focusing on pre- and early history, including the Bronze and Iron Ages, of the Inner Asian Frontier. She has published on metallurgy, gender, China and Eurasia, the archaeology of Inner Asia and on artifacts.

Karen S. Rubinson is a Research Associate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. An art historian and archaeologist specializing in the steppe and Central Asia in the first millennium BCE and early first millennium CE and the South Caucasus in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages, one focus of her work is how objects of artistic production, both aesthetically and technologically, can help understand cultural contact and exchange; another is gender questions in the Eurasian Iron Age.

Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai

Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson

First published 2022

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2022 Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson

The right of Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978-1-138-31535-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-31536-5 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-45637-4 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429456374

Typeset in Bembo

by MPS Limited, Dehradun

To the horses of Pazyryk and their people

Contents

1. Introduction: The shape of Pazyryk Culture
2. 1.1 What is the Pazyryk Culture? Who were the Pazyryk people?
3. 1.2 Archaeological background
4. 1.3 Burial display
5. 1.4 Chronology at Pazyryk
6. 1.5 Interpretive framework: Shaping the study of the Pazyryk Culture
7. 1.6 Questions we have answered and those we have not
8. Economic topography in the Pazyryk Culture
9. 2.1 The Pazyryk economic setting
10. 2.2 The Pazyryk landscape and ecology
11. 2.3 Metallurgical knowhow at Pazyryk
12. 2.4 Horse rearing as a foundation of the Pazyryk economy
13. 2.5 Role of horses and horse management
14. 2.6 Climate and topography in relation to economic activity within and outside of the Pazyryk Culture
15. 2.7 Political history of the region
16. Social and occupational topography of the Pazyryk Culture: Valedictory use of burials
17. 3.1 Introduction: An adaptable community
18. 3.2 Established social boundaries: Animal handlers
19. 3.3 Occupations within Pazyryk Culture: Craftworkers as social actors
20. 3.4 Animals: Markers of social order
21. 3.5 Multi-tiered society: Bound together within family structure
22. 3.5.1 What we know about gender in Pazyryk Culture
23. 3.6 Multi-occupational society: Exchange of goods and trade and spiritual bonds
24. 3.6.1 Trade/traders
25. 3.6.2 Analysis of imports
26. 3.7 Spiritual life
27. The larger picture: Relationships with Mongolia and China
28. 4.1 Back and forth with Mongolia and China
29. 4.2 Pazyryk and Western Mongolia
30. 4.3 Pazyryk and Northwestern China, Xinjiang
31. The Pazyryk Culture: Concluding remarks
32. 5.1 Concluding remarks

Figures

1. 0.1 Authors in 2017
2. 1.1 Map of Pazyryk Culture sites mentioned in the text. Map by Evan Matthew Mann
3. 1.2 Pazyryk barrow and contents. (a) Ground plan, Pazyryk, Kurgan 1 showing supporting wooden structure and burials of horses. (b) Cross section of Kurgan 5, Pazyryk showing frozen ground, wooden chamber and contents. (c) Eagle-Griffin on saddle cover, Kurgan 2, Pazyryk, felt appliqu. (d) Wood, leather finials for male headgear, Pazyryk, Kurgan 2, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg 1684/170; 1684/162163
4. 1.3 Arzhan I, ca. 9th c. BCE, Tuva. (a) Ground Plan of excavated structures, Arzhan I. (b) Bronze coiled feline, 25 cm, TRM K220, State Museum of the Tuva, Kyzyl Arzhan I
5. 1.4 Plan of burial group at Pazyryk
6. 1.5 Arzhan 2, Tuva, ca, 7th C. BCE. (a) Gold plaques of felines, clothing adornments, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg 2917/20/71100. (b) View of landscape near Arzhan, Tuva
7. 1.6 Caftan/shirt, cotton (design is local, cotton is either from India or China), Pazyryk, Kurgan 2
8. 1.7 Tattoos from Pazyryk and Ak-Alakha. (a) Tattoo. Right shoulder, Pazyryk, Kurgan 5. (b) Tattoo. Left shoulder, from Ak-Alakha, Ukok Plateau
9. 1.8 Woolen, knotted carpet, Central Asian manufacture, 1.9 2m
10. 1.9 Satellite image, mounded site, Kegen Plateau, Semirechye, Kazakhstan, showing repeated use site
11. 1.10 Phase I: Distinguishing Goods from Pazyryk. (a) Horses, two (of ten) lavishly adorned with felt saddle covers, horned headgear made of felt and leather. (b) Leather cutout on saddle bow, with gold overlay on wood, Pazyryk, K5. (c) Reconstructed felt hats with wooden attachments:1, Pazyryk K5; 2, Verkh Kaldzhin-2, K3; 3, Ulandryk 2, K8

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