Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

copper and tin mining 73
domestication of cattle, sheep,
and goats 71
ecological zones 63, 64
Final Bronze Age (1200–850 bc)
76–82
horse domestication 71–2
horse riding, earliest evidence
for 72–3
horses 70–3, 82
Late Bronze Age continuum
(1800–1200 bc) 73–6, 74
steppe corridor 62–5
steppe landscape 60, 62
temperature and rainfall 54
temperature range and
vegetation 62
Eusebius 30
Exampaeus (holy ways) great
cauldron 270
Ezekiel, prophet 106
Fellbach-Schmilden carved deer,
Germany 163, 165
Filippovka kurgans, Kazakhstan
26–7, 177–8, 177, 178, 179
Frolov, Petr 9, 16
Frolov collection, tiger 9
Gabler, F. V. 16
Gaugamela, Battle of (331 bc) 175
Gaumata, Persian rebel leader 41,
41
Gaymanova mogila, silver bowl,
Ukraine 21, 201–2, 203, 242,
243, 247, 336–7, 336, 337
Gelonus, city 46, 135, 333
gender fluidity, and the Scythians
218–20
Genesis 34
Georgievskaya petroglyph
depicting shaman 93
Gerrhos region kurgans 293–5, 294
Gnurus, Scythian king 358
index
gods and goddesses, Scythian
267–9
Goestosyrus (Apollo) 267, 268
‘golden man’/‘golden princess’ of
Kazakhstan 24
gorytos (quiver) 243
Chertomlÿk kurgan, Ukraine
241–2, 242
Solokha kurgan, warrior king
burial, Ukraine 254, 255,
344–5, 344
Tobolsk belt buckle 5
Goths 325, 326
Great Bliznitsa kurgan, Taman
Peninsula 142–3, 142, 143
Great Hungarian Plain 63, 107–9,
147–60, 149, 247, 322, 323
puszta 107–9
see also Carpathian basin
Greeks and the Scythians:
Black-Figured pots depicting
Scythians 52, 52, 53
Black Sea (Pontos Axiemos/Euxine)
exploration 29–30
coexistence between 44–6, 47
colonial interactions 124–9, 125,
126, 127
colonization of the Black Sea
littoral 35–9, 36
cultural interactions 11, 13, 14, 15,
21
goldsmiths and craftsmen 331
Pontic grain supplies 124–5
Red-Figured plate depicting
Scythian archer 28, 53
Red-Figured pottery 131
timeline 354
vapour baths 210
see also Athens and the
Scythians
Griaznov, Mikhail 18, 23, 24,
95
Griffins, gold-guarding 50, 51
Gyges, Lydian king 33
Hallstatt culture 108, 155, 156, 157
funerary rite developments and
steppe influences 159–60
haoma plant 39
headhunting 261, 262
Hecataeus 44, 46
Hellanikos of Lesbos 45, 46
Hercules 266, 267
herd management and animal
husbandry, Scythian 220–2
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
2, 14
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
(Histories) 10, 11, 14, 30, 31,
34, 41, 43, 45–7, 48–52, 55, 58,
105, 106, 111, 114, 115–17, 121–2,
123, 128, 135–6, 144, 152, 154,
169, 199, 209, 210–11, 216–17,
219, 220, 222, 230, 246, 255,
256–7, 259, 260, 261–2, 266,
268, 269–70, 272, 279, 282,
292–3, 306–7, 308, 343, 357
Hesiod 30
Histrani of Thrace 55
Histria, Greek colony 38
Hladkivschyna kurgan 2 warrior,
Cherkesta 250
Homer 30
horse sacrifice and burials 136, 155,
271
Alexandropol kurgan, Ukraine
14
Arzhan 1 95–8, 298, 301
Arzhan 2 100–2
Chertomlÿk kurgan, Ukraine
300
Kelermes kurgan 1, Kuban
region 300–1
Pazyryk cemeteries, Altai
Mountains, Kazakhstan 231,
232, 301
Pazyryk kurgan 36 301
horses and horse gear 70–3, 82,
231–7
394