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Spectacular works of art were excavated between 1986 and 1990 from burial mounds at Filippovka, in Russia, on the border of Europe and Asia. The objects were created from about the fifth to the fourth century b.c. by pastoral people who lived on the steppes near the southern Ural Mountains. The large funerary deposits include wooden, deerlike creatures with predatory mouths and elongated snouts and ears, overlaid with sheets of gold and silver, as well as gold attachments for wooden vessels and gold and silver luxury wares imported from Achaemenid Iran. These treasures are now in the collection of the Museum of Archaeology, Ufa, in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.The discoveries at Filippovka open a new chapter in the history of the material culture of the nomads who in the first millennium b.c. traversed the steppe corridor extending from the Black Sea region to China. Yet the information provided by the Filippovka excavations is complicated and ambiguous. The identity of the people represented by the finds remains uncertain, but the forms and ornamentation of many works from Filippovka, as well as the cemetery’s location in the southern Urals, argue for the cultural-chronological designation of this material as Early Sarmatian. Stylistic features, however, point also to the arts of Siberia, Central Asia, and China in the east and to the art of the “Meotian-Scythians” in the west. Imported Achaemenid goods raise questions about their place of production and about the circumstances that brought them to be included in tombs on the southern Ural steppes. Finally, robbers penetrated the burials in antiquity, destroying much of the evidence necessary for understanding the Filippovka nomads’ religious and funerary practices.These are among the issues addressed in this volume, the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art that brings together the remarkable new material from Filippovka and, from the incomparably rich collections of the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, related luxury objects found in graves of other Eurasian steppe tribes. Gold and silver objects from the Scythian Black Sea tombs; textiles and leather and wooden works from the Altai Mountains; and gold and bronze pieces from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia illustrate developments in the art of the steppes in the centuries preceding the Filippovka burials, in contemporary societies, and in later centuries, toward the turn of the first millennium b.c. These outstanding works not only place the Filippovka discoveries in their proper historical and cultural context but are themselves fascinating and enigmatic. Prairie Animal Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com Prairie Animal Printouts. What is a Prairie? A prairie is a temperate grassland plains of grass that get hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Deer - Wikipedia Deer constitute the second most diverse family after bovids. Though of a similar build deer are strongly distinguished from antelopes by their antlers which are ... Red deer - Wikipedia The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species. The red deer inhabits most of Europe the Caucasus Mountains region Asia Minor Iran parts of ... Golden Dead Nettle Eat The Weeds and other things too I have two kinds growing in my garden one has a silver stripe down the green leaf and the other has more of a rounded leaf that is all silver but rimmed around the ... Caribou - Rangifer tarandus - Blue Planet Biomes reindeer became known as caribou. Although they are called by different names they are both considered to be a single species. Oregon State University LANDSCAPE PLANTS Vol. 1 This is Volume 1 of Oregon State University's Landscape Plants web site. Landscape plants (mostly woody i.e. shrubs and trees) in this volume are listed in ... Wildlife Online - Natural History of Red Deer Natural History of Red Deer ... RED DEER Cervus elaphus. Content Updated: 27th April 2010. The Red deer has a long history in Britain one of only two native deer ... Caucasus region and mountains Eurasia Britannica.com The great historic barrier of the Caucasus Mountains rises up across the wide isthmus separating the Black and Caspian seas in the region where Europe and Asia converge.
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