Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

bone cheek pieces, Karasuk
period 77, 77
bridles 235–7, 236, 237, 238
domestication, earliest evidence
for 71–2
gelding preference 231
importance of 159
Kul’-Oba kurgan, gold plaques
of Scythian horsemen 217,
218, 224, 225, 241
mare milking 222
Pazyryk kurgan 1 horse gear
228, 235, 236, 237, 247–8,
247, 273–4, 273
riding, earliest evidence for
72–3
saddles and saddle cloths 232–7,
234, 235, 238
trade in, Carpathian basin
(Great Hungarian Plain)
156–7
training 221, 221
Huns 315–17, 323, 325, 326
hunting and sport, Scythian
229
Iazyges (Sarmatians) 317, 319, 320,
320
and the Roman Empire 322–4
Idanthyrsus, Scythian king 256,
309
Imirlev burial, Amasya province
107
Iron Gates, river Danube 147, 150
Isaiah, prophet 106
Ishpakai, Scythian king 358
Issedonians 46–7, 51, 51, 169
ritual cannibalism 308
Issyk kurgans, Kazakhstan 24, 183,
184, 185, 203
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), Tzar of
Russia 2
Jeremiah, prophet 34–5, 256
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Kalmyks 224
Kamchatka Expedition, First (1725)
8
Kamenskoe fortification (gorodišče),
Ukraine 22, 129–31, 130
Karaganda copper mining,
Kazakhstan 73
Karagodeuashkh kurgan, gold
plaque 280–1, 282
Karasuk culture 23, 77–8, 79, 80,
86–8, 112
Kargaly copper mining, south
Urals 73
Karmir Blur fortress 107
cauldron 270–1
Kazakh steppe 170, 171
Kelermes kurgans, Kuban region
114, 293
iron battleaxe 245, 245
iron sword with gold handle
and sheaf 115, 115,
kurgan 1, sacrificial horses
300–1
kurgan 1/V 136–7, 137
kurgan 2, bronze helmet 249
kurgan 4, silver-gilt mirror
276–7, 278
kurgan 29, arrowheads 240
Kermenchik settlement, Crimea
131–2
Khanate of Crimea 7
Khutor Popovka, kurgan 3, shield
248
Kimmerians 30, 31, 32, 32–3, 34,
35, 103–9, 104, 111, 112–13,
145, 312
bimetallic daggers 104, 105, 108
Bosphorus 124–8, 125, 126, 127
in history 106–7
in the Longue Durée 109
Royal tribe 106
timelines 254, 255
in the West 107–9
Kohl, J. G. 65, 246
Kostromskaya kurgan, Kuban
region 15, 137, 138
gold recumbent stag 265, 284,
284
sacrificial horses 300
koumiss, fermented mares’ milk
217, 222
Krasnosamarskoe settlement,
Samara valley 74–6, 75
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia 3
Krest-Khaja cemetery stone slab,
Minusinsk Basin 78
Kuban culture 104, 104
Kul’-Oba kurgan, Kerch Peninsula
viii, 11–14, 13, 14, 128, 142
gold beaker 201–2, 202, 239,
240, 242, 243, 253–4, 332–3,
332, 333
gold plaques of Scythian
horsemen 217, 218, 224, 225,
241
gold torc 198, 202, 203
neck ring 232
recumbent stag 284, 284
shield 247
Kunstkamera (Cabinet of
Curiosities), St Petersburg
2, 8
Kurdzhips kurgan, gold ornamental
headdress 261, 261
Kushan empire 314, 315
Kut burial, Dnieper region 140–1
La Tène culture 160–1
Lábatlan pottery vessel, Hungary
162, 162
le Heze, V. 346
Leipoxais 266
Little Hungarian Plain 147, 155
Lusatian culture 157
Lycus, Scythian king 358
Lydia 31, 32, 33, 36
Lysa Hora ceremonial pole top,
Ukraine 275
395