The emergence of the Tagar culture

Bokovenko, N.A.

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00094473

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“…However, with the difficulties disentangling dung burning and human foraging indicators, it is worth discussing the plants in this genus (and the entire Amaranthaceae family) further. Russian archaeologists have specifically claimed that this 'pseudo-cereal' was collected by early Iron Age people in the Minusinsk basin in the Altai mountains (Bokovenkov 2006). It has been suggested that the abundance of the seeds at the sites of Krasnosamarskoe and the herding camps of Peschanyi Dol 1, 2, 3 and Kibit 1 in the Samara valley in the Volga region during the 2nd millennium bc suggests that Chenopodium was collected from the wild (Anthony et al 2005;Popova 2006).…”

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Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now?

Spengler

2018

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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In the early 1980s Naomi Miller changed the field of palaeoethnobotany; her research into whether the ancient seed eaters of southwest Asia were human or herbivore opened an ongoing debate over the impact that burning of animal dung had on the formation of archaeobotanical assemblages, and how researchers can differentiate between human and animal food remains. As the number of systematic archaeobotanical studies across West Asia and many other parts of the world increase, we are continually confronted with the question of the significance of dung burning. Herd animal dung is the dominant fuel source in many parts of West Asia today and the high densities of seeds of wild plants in archaeobotanical assemblages suggest that people were using dung as fuel across Inner Asia for millennia. Seed assemblages that represent herd animal dung are assisting scholars in understanding palaeoecology and herd animal diet in the past as well as human economy and pasturing practices. However, interpreting these assemblages is not always simple and there are predictable biases that need to be taken into account, notably an overrepresentation of endozoochoric seeds (seeds dispersed through animal ingestion). In West Asia, the most prominent of such seeds in dung assemblages are from the Amaranthaceae family, notably Chenopodium.

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Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now?

Spengler

2018

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“…Others have looked within to find new kinds of social and structural complexity in the societies of the steppe (e.g. Linduff 2004; Bokovenko 2006; Hanks & Linduff 2009; Houle 2010). Whatever the case, a clearer understanding of the patterns and character of interaction is one of the essential goals of archaeological research in this period.…”

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Tracing the flows of copper and copper alloys in the Early Iron Age societies of the eastern Eurasian steppe

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“…This article describes and interprets lesions on the occipital bone of a horse skull from the site of Arzhan 1, in the Tuva Republic, Central Asia (Figure 1). Arzhan 1 is a complex funerary monument; a ‘royal’ barrow containing over 160 horse skeletons (Gryaznov, 1980; Bourova, 2004; Bokovenko, 2006). The barrow is considered to be the earliest ‘Scythian’, or ‘pre‐Scythian’, monument in Eurasia, dating to the boundary of the 8th and 9th centuries BC (Zaitseva et al ., 2007).…”

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A possible case of ‘poll‐evil’ in an early Scythian horse skull from Arzhan 1, Tuva Republic, Central Asia

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Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Occipital bone lesions on an Iron Age horse cranium from the burial mound of Arzhan 1, Tuva, Central Asia, are described and interpreted. Cavitations around the nuchal ligament attachment site on the skull are interpreted as foci of inflammation and necrosis following local infection. It is suggested that the pathology represents a case of ‘poll‐evil’, most likely due to a bacterial infection. The significance of such an interpretation is discussed, including its implications for disease ecology and the possible infection risks to contiguous animal and human communities of the first millennium BC in Central Asia. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The emergence of the Tagar culture

Cited by 21 publications

References 4 publications

Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now?

Dung burning in the archaeobotanical record of West Asia: where are we now?

Tracing the flows of copper and copper alloys in the Early Iron Age societies of the eastern Eurasian steppe

A possible case of ‘poll‐evil’ in an early Scythian horse skull from Arzhan 1, Tuva Republic, Central Asia

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