The Golden Deer of Eurasia
Contributors: Joan Aruz (Editor); Ann Farkas (Editor); Andrei Alekseev (Editor); Elena Korolkova (Editor)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780300085105
Subjects: Asian archaeology; European archaeology; Gold & silversmithing; History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; BCE to c 500 CE; European; Metropolitan Museum Of Art - Exhibition Catalogs; Wood-carving; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Russia; Exhibitions; Art / History / European; Ukraine; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Goldwork, Sarmatian; Goldwork, Scythian; Pylypivka
First sentence: During the quarter century since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's last exhibition of steppe art (From the Lands of the Scythians), spectacular discoveries, particularly in the East-such as the frozen grave of Ak-Alakh, in the Gorno-Altai Autonomous District near the Russian-Chinese border, and the mummies of Urumqi, in the Uyghur Autonomous Region in western China-have enriched, if not completely redrawn, scholars' picture of the nomads who dominated the steppes from Siberia to the Black Sea, and even farther west, during the first millennium B.C.