Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

Scythians as others saw them
29–57
alliances with Macedonia 55–7
Athens and the Athenians 52–5
coexistence with the Greek
world 44–8, 47
see also Greeks and the Scythians
Scythians in Central Asia (700–200
bc) 169–97
Altai tombs 183–96, 186
China, trade and exchange with
195–6
Filippovka kurgans,
Kazakhstan 177–8, 177, 178,
179
Kazakh steppe 170, 171
landscapes with people 176–7
life on the desert edge 179–81,
180
Sayan mountains 196–7
Semirechye Seven Rivers region
181–3, 182
symmachoi (allies) contingents
175
woodworking skills 195
wool and leather uses 194–5
Scythians in the Longue Durée 311–27
acculturation with Greek,
Persian and settled
agricultural communities
312–13
power struggles in the Far East
313–17, 314
raiding and predatory hordes
312
and the Sarmatians/Sauromatae
317–24, 318
and the steppe gradient 312
Scythians, Pontic steppe 111–45, 112
belief systems 135–6
and the Bosporan Kingdom
125–8, 126, 127
Early, Middle and Late periods
111, 119
index
forest steppe zone 117–19
and the Greeks 124–5, 125,
128–9
horse sacrifices 136
human sacrifices 136
inland markets and royal
residences 129–35
major kurgans west of the Don
118
major settlements 118, 119
migrational origins 111–13
North Caucasus and Asia Minor
113–17
the presence of kings 135–44
west of the Don 117–21, 118
Scythians, Royal 49, 51, 121, 216,
266, 267, 270
Semirechye/Seven Rivers region,
Kazakhstan 177, 181–3, 182
bronze cauldron 214
kurgans 26
Seven Brothers kurgans, Kuban
region 15
eagle attacking a lamb plaque
285, 286
kurgan 2 burial chamber 299,
299
shamans 273–4
Shibe kurgan, Altai Mountains 18
Shuka, Sakā king 25
Siberia 2–8, 7
pioneering expeditions 6–8
Sigynnae peoples 154
Simferopol recoiled feline, Crimea
285
Sinope 30, 31, 32, 37, 106
Sintashta culture 68–9, 73
Sirace peoples 123–4, 144, 317, 318
Skatovka kurgan 5 226
Skuka, Sakā king 203
Skunkha, Sakā king 41, 41
Skyles, Scythian king 217
slaves, Scythian, in Greece 52–4
social structure, Scythian 216–17
Solokha kurgan, warrior king
burial, Ukraine 12, 13, 15,
242, 251–3, 252
gold comb 232, 235, 237, 243,
248, 249–51, 254–5, 340–1,
340, 341
gorytos (quiver) 254, 255,
344–5, 344
mace 244, 246
silver cup 338–9, 338, 339
Spargapeithes, Scythian king 358
Spartocus 125
spears and lances, Scythian 243–4,
243
Sredni Stog culture 67, 68
Srubnaya (Timber-Grave) culture
73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 122
Staikin Verkh kurgan 3, scale
armour 248
Strabo 30, 52, 106, 107, 127–8, 131,
231, 318, 319
Suevi 325
Suvorovo-Novodanilovka culture
67, 68
swords and daggers, Scythian 115,
115, 244, 244
Symatai peoples 144
Syr Darya (Jaxartes) river 7, 26,
39, 41, 74, 170, 171, 177, 179,
180, 317
Taar culture horse burials, Arzhan
2 100–2
Tabiti (Hestia) 267–8, 289
Tacitus 317
Tager culture (1200–850 bc) 23,
78–82, 81
animal art 90–3, 91, 92, 102
Arzhan chieftains 95–103
cultural phases 88
deer stones 92–3, 93, 94, 99,
99
funerary monument and
burials 88–95
398