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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Eurasian steppe"”.
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Being Ethnic on the Eurasian Steppe: Civic Nation-Building Discourse in Kazakhstan and Russia
<p>Civic nation-building as a concept has emerged within the political discourses of various post-Soviet states, particularly in relation to the status of ethnic minorities in Russia and Kazakhstan. This dissertation investigates the institutional efforts to establish civic nations in these states …
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Goldsmithing technologies, metallurgical traditions and funerary rituals in the Saka societies of the Eurasian Steppe during the Iron Age (c. 900 - 500 BCE)
… granulation technique, known exclusively in the Eurasian steppe regions, was also revealed, alongside traditional gold granulation. Within 100–150 years (8th–6th centuries BCE), Saka goldsmiths created and developed unique steppe goldsmithing traditions that perfectly adapted to societal needs. …
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Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
… demonstrates how the physical geography of the Eurasian steppe conditioned distinct human relations with the environment which continue to inform modern day processes. Accounting for the region’s development history and the role sturgeon played as a key food source to support the livestock …
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On the origin and spread of horse domestication
… genetic diversity of horses from the Eurasian steppes and neighbouring regions, thus laying the groundwork for a more thorough analysis into the demographic history of horses. I then investigate the origin and mode of spread of horse domestication in the Eurasian steppe region using a …
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Reconstruction of the Late and Mid-Pleistocene climate and landscape history in SE-Central Europe - A paleopedological and geochemical multi-proxy approach in loess-paleosol studies.
… type of climate to a more continental steppe climate. Results from n-alkane biomarkers support that summer dryness limiting the expansion of trees was a persistent feature of interglacial climate in SE-European lowlands. In the obtained proxy dataset, increase of wind strength, gradual …
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Mobile Practices and the Production and Curation of Pottery: A View from the Ancient Southern Russian Steppe Using Portable Methods of Investigation
<p>The southern Russian steppe is located in an intermediary position between the Caucasus, Lower Don and Lower Volga steppe, between which peoples, goods, and technologies often moved throughout prehistory, likely facilitated by small scale seasonal movements and occasional migrations by mobile …