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With the Saka on the Soviet Steppe: excavations in Kazakhstan
Minerva: the international review of ancient art and archaeology • 2 (3) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 18-20
By: Davis-Kimball, Jeannine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Davis-Kimball discusses the first season of excavations of kurgans near Issyk, Kazakstan near the base of the Tien Shan mountains. She discusses their findings and gives a brief description of Saka nomadic life and mythology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Visual arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Nomad
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2300 BP (300 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Saka; Kazakstan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jeannine Davis-Kimball
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Asia, Central--Antiquities