Author: E.V. Cernenko
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: series, men, scythians
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1983-03-24
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0850454786
ISBN-13: 9780850454789

Though the ’Scythian period’ in the history of Eastern Europe lasted little more than 400 years, the impression these horsemen made upon the history of their times was such that a thousand years after they had ceased to exist as a sovereign people, their heartland and the territories which they dominated far beyond it continued to be known as ’greater Scythia’. From the very beginnings of their emergence on the world scene the Scythians took part in the greatest campaigns of their times, defeating such mighty contemporaries as Assyria, Urartu, Babylonia, Media and Persi

Author: Renate Rolle
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: scythians, world
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 1989-12-07
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520068645
ISBN-13: 9780520068643

Author: Kathryn Hinds
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books
Keywords: barbarians, sarmatians, scythians
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-11
List price: $35.64
ISBN-10: 0761440720
ISBN-13: 9780761440727

Author: Peter S. Wells
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Keywords: archaeology, duckworth, debates, europe, identity, scythians, celts, germans
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-08-20
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0715630369
ISBN-13: 9780715630365

Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Celts, Germans, Scythians: these are among the names that come to mind. But such names and the characteristics associated with them, come to us from outside observers - Greek and Roman writers - not from the native peoples themselves. To understand how late prehistoric groups constructed and expressed their identities, we need to examine the rich archaeological evidence left by the Iron Age Europeans themselves. Recent theoretical and methodological advances in anthropology, archaeology and history, together with results of archaeological research all o