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  Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan (Hardback) Edited by Sören Stark, Edited by Zainolla Samashev, Edited by Karen S. Rubinson, Edited by Jennifer Y. Chi

  

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  Short Description for Nomads and Networks Offers an overview of the sophisticated culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the territory of Kazakhstan from roughly the middle of the first millennium BCE to the early centuries CE. This title explores the conditions of mobile life ways that resulted from ecological conditions in the steppes and high valleys of Inner Eurasia.
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  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Published: 01 April 2012
  • Format: Hardback 200 pages
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  • Categories: Oriental Art | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Archaeology By Period / Region
  • ISBN 13: 9780691154800 ISBN 10: 0691154805
  • Sales rank: 221,803

Full description for Nomads and Networks

• The catalogue for the groundbreaking exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, "Nomads and Networks" presents an unparalleled overview of the sophisticated culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the territory of present-day Kazakhstan from roughly the middle of the first millennium BCE to the early centuries CE. Focusing on material from the Altai and Tianshan regions, "Nomads and Networks" explores the specific conditions of mobile lifeways that resulted from particular ecological conditions in the steppes and high valleys of Inner Eurasia. Highlights of the exhibition are grave goods from the burial mounds at the site of Berel and gold mortuary ornaments from Shilikty, Zhalauli, and Kargaly. Attesting to a sophisticated decorative art flourishing among these nomadic populations, the objects skillfully combine older iconographic traditions of animal style in the steppe with more recent influences from foreign cultures - most notably Persia and China. Contributors include Nursan Alimbai, Nikolay A. Bokovenko, Claudia Chang, Bryan K. Hanks, Sagynbay Myrgabayev, Karen S. Rubinson, Zainolla S. Samashev, Sren Stark, and Abdesh T. Toleubaev.