Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

curled feline bronze plaque 98
deer stone 99
female companions 302
sacrificial horses 298, 301
Arzhan 2 95, 100–3, 101, 201
female companions 302
Arzhan chieftains, Tagar culture
95–103
Asarhaddon, Persian king 33, 114
Ashkelon temple of Aphrodite
Urania 34
Ashmole, Elias 1
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1
Assyrian empire 31, 32, 33, 39, 114
Ateas, king 55, 56, 121, 241, 256, 358
Athens and the Scythians:
Pontic grain supplies 124–5, 126
Scythians employed as archerurban
police 52–4
Scythians through the eyes of
52–5
timeline 354
see also Aristophanes
Babylonian empire 32, 33, 39
Bactria 175
Bactria Margiana Archaeological
Complex (BMAC) 74
Barinovka settlement, Samara
valley 73, 75
Barnaul Mining Museum, Siberia
16
Bartatua, Scythian king 33, 114,
259, 358
Bashadar kurgan 2 238
Basse Yeutz wine flagons, France
160–2, 161
Bastarnae peoples 144–5
battleaxes and maces, Scythian
244–5, 245
Bel’sk fortified settlement
(gorodišče), Ukraine 22, 46,
129, 132, 133–5, 133
Belozerka culture 80, 81, 103–4
index
Berel kurgans, Altai Mountains 20,
190–3
kurgan 1 190
kurgan 9 193
kurgan 10 190, 191, 192, 192–3
kurgan 11, female companions
302
Berezan, Greek colony 38, 124
Bering, Vitus 8
Besschatyr kurgans, Kazakhstan
182
Bidzilya, V. I. 336
Bisitun carved relief, Iran 25, 41,
41, 203
Black Sea 7, 9–16, 11
Bliznits kurgan 14
blood-brotherhood ritual,
Scythian 217, 218, 260–1,
309, 347
Bolshoi Salbykskii kurgan, Salbyk
valley 89, 196
Bosporan kingdom 142–3, 256,
260, 319
Pontic steppe Scythians and
125–8, 126, 127
timeline 354
Botai settlement, Kazakhstan 72
bows and arrows, Scythian 238–42,
239, 240, 241
Boyer petroglyph, Yenisei valley
212
depicting shaman 93
Bratoliubivsky kurgan gold finial,
Khersonska region 287
Breyne, Johann Philipp 6
Bundi tribe 135
Callipedae peoples 49
cannabis use, Scythian 46, 210
cannibalism, ritual 308–9, 308
Carpathian basin (Great Hungarian
Plain) 147–67, 148, 149
Celtic migrations 160–7
horse-riding, importance of 159
North European Plain and
Scythian settlement 157
pre-Scythian advances 148–50
relations with the West 156–8
Scythians in the West 150–6, 151
timeline 354
trade in horses 156–7
Transylvanian group 151–2, 152
Vekerzug culture 152, 152–6,
154, 157
view from the West 159–60
Carpathian mountains 147–8, 148,
149
catacomb-style of burials 139–41,
152
Rjadovye kurgan 3 299–300,
299
Catherine the Great, Tzarina of
Russia 9
Celtic migrations, and Scythian art
160–7
Celtic war bands 144
cereal cultivation (1800–1200 bc)
73–6
chariots 69
Chastye Kurgany kurgans 334
silver beaker 334–5, 334, 335
cheese making, Scythian 222–4
Chernogorovka culture 103
Chersonesos, Greek colony 38–9
Chertomlÿk kurgan, Ukraine 10,
14, 21–2, 136, 139, 140, 219,
297, 305
death riders 307
gorytos (quiver) 242
retainers 302
sacrificial horses 300
silver wine amphora 221, 221,
232, 233, 235, 242, 350–1, 350,
351
Chian Han dynasty, China 313
Chinggis Khan 66, 67, 327
Chios, and slavery 52
Cicero 45
392