The history of Central Asia: 1 The age of the steppe warriors
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| adam_text | Titel: Bd. 1. The history of Central Asia. The age of the Steppe warriors
Autor: Baumer, Christoph
Jahr: 2012
Contents
Introduction l
I. Geography, Climate and Prehuman History of Central Asia 3
1. On the definition of Central Asia 4
Excursus: The dinosaur hunter Roy Chapman Andrews 8
2. The interdependence of geography, climate and history 11
3. The factors determining climate 17
Excursus: Hominin or hominid? 17
II. The Settlement of Central Asia in the Palaeolithic 19
1. Out-of-Af rica or Out-of-Asia? 20
2. The earliest settlements of Central Asia 22
2.1 Neanderthals and Homo sapiens - supersession or interbreeding? 24
3. The birth of art 28
4. The bow - a 12,000-year-old success story 35
III. A Global Climatic Warming Ushers in the Mesolithic 39
1. The retreat of the glaciers 40
2. Petroglyphs as information sources - 40
Excursus: The petroglyphs of Tsagaan Salaa and Baga Oigor, Mongolia 42
3. Microliths 47
IV. The Economic Revolution of the Neolithic 49
1. The primary and secondary Neolithic revolutions 50
2. Hunters and gatherers in the mountains and along the waterways of inner Central Asia 50
CENTRAL ASIA: VOLUME ONE
3. Agriculture and early settlements in southern Central Asia 52
4. The northern steppes of Central Asia - meeting point of hunters and herders with farmers 55
V. The Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age 57
1. The division of early history and the beginnings of metallurgy 58
2. An initial proto-urban development 60
Excursus: The pioneer Raphael Pumpelly in Anau 61
3. The first cities of Central Asia in southern Turkmenistan 65
Excursus: The Indus Valley Civilisation, trade partner of Central Asia in the early Bronze Age 76
4. Agrarian and stockbreeding cultures in northern Central Asia 78
4.1 The cultures of Cucuteni-Tripolye and Usatovo 78
4.2 Early stockbreeding cultures 82
4.3 The emergence of horse riding 84
4.4 The invention of wheel and wagon 87
4.5 The culture of Maikop 92
4.6 The Yamnaya-Afanasievo Cultural Complex 95
4.7 Sun deities and horse sacrifices 98
VI. The Middle and Late Bronze Age 101
1. The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex BMAC 104
1.1 The BMAC Culture of Margiana 106
Excursus: Lord and Mistress of animals 110
1.2 The BMAC Culture of Bactria 114
2. Indo-European mummies in north-western China 122
2.1 The origins of metallurgy in China 122
2.2 The Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe Culture 123
2.3 The wheel, the horse and fertility rites 134
3. The steppes of Central Asia: origin of the Indo-European languages? 135
4. Mysterious stone steles of the Okunev Culture in Khakassia 137
CONTENTS vii
Excursus: Cultures of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the Minusinsk Basin 139
5. From the Volga to the Yenisei: homeland of the Indo-lranians? 139
5.1 Cultures west of the Urals 140
5.2 Cultures east of the Urals: The Andronovo complex 141
5.2.1 The culture of Sintashta - fortified circular settlements and chariot burials 141
5.2.2 Alakul and Fyodorovo 149
6. Karasuk and the cultures of Khirigsuurs and Slab Craves during the transition to the Iron Age 151
6.1 Deer stones: flying deer as companions in the afterlife? 157
VII. The Iron Age 165
1. Nomadic horsemen in north-eastern Central Asia 169
1.1 The kurgan steppe of Minusinsk 169
1.2 Herodotus s geography of Central Asian peoples 172
1.3 Tuva, nucleus of the Scythian peoples and the Scytho-Siberian animal style 175
Excursus: The Siberian collection of Tsar Peter the Great 180
1.4 The ice kurgans of the Altai 186
1.5 Stockbreeding cultures of north-eastern Kazakhstan and the western Siberian forest steppe 195
1.6 Achaemenid invasions in the territory of the Saka: The beginning of a 2,500-year-long conflict 198
between nomadic horse-riding peoples and states of settled societies
Excursus: Zoroastrianism and its symbol, Faravahar 204
1.7 Nomadic and settled cultures between the Land of Seven Rivers and Choresmia 205
1.8 Mountain, steppe and desert stockbreeders between the Pamirs and Altyn Tagh 209
1.8.1 Fergana and the Pamirs 209
1.8.2 The Chinese Altai and regions north of the Tian Shan Mountains 211
1.8.3 Oasis cultures south of the Tian Shan Mountains 216
2. Nomadic riding peoples on the north-western periphery of Central Asia 224
2.1 Cimmerians and early Scythians 224
2.2 Scythians in the Kuban region 229
2.3 The Pontic Scythians 233
2.3.1 The Scythian pantheon 235
CENTRAL ASIA: VOLUME ONE
2.3.2 War and burial customs 237
Excursus: Olbia and the Bosporan Kingdom 239
2.3.3 Chronology of the Scythian kings 244
2.3.4 Creek influences on Scythian toreutics and grave architecture 249
2.4 Sarmatians, Alans and Amazons 253
2.4.1 Sauromatians and early Sarmatians between the Volga and the Ustyurt Plateau 254
2.4.2 Sarmatians and Alans on the Black Sea and in the Roman Empire 256
2.4.3 Military innovations 262
Excursus: The Amazons - myth and reality ISA
2.4.4 The polychrome animal style 267
VIII. Greeks in Central Asia 271
1. The campaign of Alexander the Great 275
2. The Creco-Bactrian Kingdom 283
3. Bactrian art of the steppe, Hellenism and Zoroastrianism 291
3.1 The golden treasure of Tillya Tepe 291
3.2 A i Khanum - a Greek city in northern Afghanistan 296
Excursus: The Oxus treasure 298
3.3 The Oxus temple 300
IX. Outlook 303
Appendix 308
The most important prehistoric and early historic cultures of Central Asia
Notes 311
Bibliography 335
CONTENTS ix
List of Maps 355
Photo Credits 357
Acknowledgements 359
Index 361
Concepts 361
People 367
Places 369
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