Conference
Scythians and
other early
Eurasian nomads
Friday 27 October – Sunday 29 October 2017
Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum
This conference draws together scholars of all 10.15 The ‘royal’ burial-memorial complex of ages and many nationalities to share the results of Arzhan-2, Tuva (southern Siberia): stages their research projects, latest archaeological of function and internal chronology discoveries and new scientific research. Many of K V Chugunov, State Hermitage Museum these results are presented here for the first time Simultaneous translation: Irene Polinskaya and they evoke the world of the steppe, a natural open corridor without borders which connected 11.05 Coffee China and Europe.
Papers will be presented in English and illustrated Chair: St John Simpson with PowerPoint. Additional research will be displayed in the form of posters. 11.35 The formation of the early Scythian complex in the Kuban region of the north Supported by the European Research Council Caucasus according to the materials from the burial mounds at Kelermes T Ryabkova, State Hermitage Museum
12.05 Sandaohaizi: a newly discovered deerstone-khirigsuur complex in The conference is part of the programme northwest China associated with the BP exhibition Scythians: Catrin Kost, Southern University of warriors of ancient Siberia. Science and Technology, Shenzhen
12.35 Settled, not saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas Friday 27 October Burzine Waghmar, SOAS, Scythians and other early Eurasian nomads: University of London origins and eastern connections 13.05 Lunch (not provided) 09.00 Registration
09.30 Welcome Chair: Alexandra Villing, British Museum Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum 14.05 Scythia and China: innovations and formation processes on the boundaries 09.35 Opening remarks of empire St John Simpson, British Museum T Taylor, University of Vienna, C Havlicek, University of Vienna, James Johnson, 09.45 The Okunevo culture of southern University of Copenhagen & Sergey Siberia and its links with later Scythian Makhortykh, Institute of Archaeology, Kiev and Tashtyk cultures L S Marsadolov, State Hermitage Museum 14.35 Scythians, Persians, Greeks and horses: reflections on art, culture, power and Saturday 28 October empires in the light of Berel’ 11 frozen burial excavation (Altay, Eastern Nomads and nomadic relations Kazakhstan) Henri-Paul Francfort, Académie des 09.00 Registration Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris Chair: Alexandra Villing 15.15 From Taksai to Tatarlı Yana Lukpanova, History and Archaeology 09.30 Burying contacts, building communities: Center of Western Kazakhstan & Latife early Iron Age monumentality in Eurasia Summerer, University of Munich Chris Gosden, University of Oxford, Peter Hommel, University of Oxford & Courtney 15.45 Tea Nimura, Griffith University, Australia
10.00 New investigations on Scythian kurgans Chair: St John Simpson in Ukraine: non-invasive studies and excavations 16.15 Mummies and dummies in family Sergei Polin, Kiev, Marina Daragan, graves at Oglakhty: different rites from Institute of Archaeology, Kiev & Ksenia different ancestors? Bondar, Taras Shevchenko National Svetlana Pankova, University of Kiev State Hermitage Museum 10.30 Landscape, community and labour in 16.45 The Sasanian and Gupta empires the Pontic Iron Age forest-steppe region, and their struggle against the Huns: c. 650–300 BC a keynote lecture James A Johnson, University of Hans Bakker, British Museum and Copenhagen University of Gronigen 11.00 Coffee 17.40 Free admission for conference attendees to BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of 11.20 Scythian gold from private collections ancient Siberia (until 19.30) of the 19th century in the Department of the Ancient World at the State 18.30 Evening lecture by Barry Cunliffe – Hermitage Museum book via britishmuseum.org/events Olga Gorskaya, State Hermitage Museum (or screening for delegates in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre) 11.50 A Scythian treasure in the lands of the Getae: considerations regarding the hoard of Stâncești Alexandru Berzovan, Iași Institute of Archaeology, Romania
12.20 Interaction between urban societies and mobile peoples: some highlight examples Nikolaus Boroffka, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
13.00 Lunch (not provided)
Chair: TBC 10.00 Openwork style in the art of early nomads of Eurasia 14.00 Ceremonial swords and daggers of early Elena Miklashevich, Museum-reserve nomads of Eurasia ‘Tomskaya Pisanitsa’, Institute of Denis Topal, Republic of Moldova Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy 14.30 The Scythian banquet of Sciences, Kemerovo Oleksandr Halenko, Kiev 10.30 ‘Steppe Style’ in south-eastern Gansu 15.00 New fieldwork in the Altai (TBC) Province, China, in the 4th and 3rd Petr Shulga, Novosibirsk centuries BC Raphael Wong, University of Oxford 15.30 ‘Jiang Yuan’ and north Chinese nomads Danil P Shulga, Nobosibirsk 11.00 Coffee
16.00 Tea Chair: TBC
Chair: Carl Heron, British Museum 11.20 The ‘Animal Style’ and the Hindu pantheon: new observations on east-west connections 16.30 Life and death in the Scythian world of Tim Taylor, University of Vienna southern Siberia: a keynote lecture Eileen Murphy, Queen’s University, Belfast 11.50 Etched carnelian beads and the spread of their technology from India into Eurasia 17.15 The potential of bioarchaeological St John Simpson, British Museum research for analysing nomadic polities in Mongolia 12.20 Free time Ursula Brosseder, University of Bonn 13.05 Lunch (not provided) 17.45 Traditional nomad economies: an ethnographic perspective Thomas Barfield, Boston University Chair: St John Simpson
18.30 Group photograph for delegates 14.05 Scythian archery Mike Loades, California 18.45 Evening reception (until 20.30) 14.35 The production technology of Scythian archery equipment: bows, arrows and quivers Sunday 29 October Marina Daragan, Institute of Archaeology, Kiev Objects in focus: style, transmission and technology 15.05 Testing Herodotus: leather species identification of Scythian quivers using 09.00 Registration novel scientific methods L Spindler, BioArCh, University of York, M Gleba, McDonald Institute for Chair: Tim Taylor Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, M Daragan, Institute of 09.30 ‘Animal Style’ art: influences and traditions Archaeology, Kiev & M Collins, Natural in the nomadic world History Museum of Denmark Elena Korolkova, State Hermitage Museum
15.35 Tea Posters
Field project Tunnug 1 (Arzhan 0): a princely Chair: Rebecca Stacey, British Museum kurgan of the earliest Scythian period G Caspari, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, 16.00 Gold working techniques in the Siberian University of Bern, Switzerland, China Studies collection of Peter the Great Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, T Elena Korolkova, State Hermitage Museum Sadykov, J Blochin, Institute for the History of & Aude Mongiatti, British Museum Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia, I Hajdas, Laboratory of Ion 16.30 Scythian and Sarmatian weapons Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland with gold decoration R Minosian, State Hermitage Museum Where the steppe meets the sea: a study on Azov Scythian barrows 17.00 One of the secrets of Alisa Demina, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Achaemenid jewellery Academy, Department of Archaeology, Ukraine E A Shablavina, State Hermitage Museum Scientific analyses of some glass beads from 17.30 Recent study of textile finds from Arzhan 1 Aymyrlyg and Znamenka burial mound in Tuva Andrew Meek, British Museum, Nikolay Nicolaev, L Gavrilenko, E Mikolaychuk, L State Hermitage Museum Marsadolov & Svetlana Pankova, State Hermitage Museum Scythian-style gold in the Oxus Treasure: skilled manufacturing and decorative techniques 17.45 Dyes of the Scythians: the first evidence Aude Mongiatti & St John Simpson, Margarita Gleba, McDonald Institute for British Museum Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, I Vanden Berghe, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels & M Daragan, Institute of Archaeology, Kiev
18.15 Closing remarks S V Pankova, State Hermitage Museum
Please note that the programme is subject to minor changes due to visas and rescheduling.
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