Fantastic Beasts Of The Eurasian Steppes: Toward A Revisionist Approach To Animal-Style Art
Journal: ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania)
Year: 2018

Animal style is a centuries-old approach to decoration characteristic of the various cultures which flourished along the Eurasian steppe belt in the later half of the first millennium BCE. This vast territory stretching from the Mongolian Plateau to the Hungarian Plain, has yielded hundreds of archaeological finds associated with the early Iron Age. Among these discoveries, high-end metalwork, textiles and tomb furniture, intricately embellished with idiosyncratic zoomorphic motifs, stand out as