Introduction
1: Discovering the Scythians
2: Observing the other
3: Landscape and people
4: Enter the predatory nomad
5: The rise of the European Scythians
6: Scythians in Central Asia
7: Bodies clothed in skins: economy and society
8: Bending the bow
9: Death and the gods
10: The flood continues
11: Reflections on the longue durée
Further reading
Index
Barry Cunliffe taught archaeology at the Universities of Bristol
and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the
University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming
Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne,
Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel
Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council
for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, a
Governor of the
Museum of London, a Commissioner of English Heritage, and a Trustee
of the British Museum. His many publications include Facing the
Ocean (2001), The Druids: A Very Short Introduction (2010),
Britain
Begins (2012), By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean (2015), and On the
Ocean (2017), all published by Oxford University Press. He received
a knighthood in 2006.
The volume is an excellent appetizer for people unfamiliar with the
Scythians and the significance of the immense steppe world for
ancient history
*KOSTAS VLASSOPOULOS, Greece and Rome*
A scintillating tour de force from probably the greatest scholar of
European archaeology.
*Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year
2019*
Cunliffe writes in an uncluttered style and with a seemingly
effortless authority about a complex people ... The book is
beautifully produced with plenty of colour illustrations, including
excellent maps of unfamiliar places. It will surely become the
standard introduction to a remarkable lost world.
*Tony Spawforth, Literary Review*
Not to be missed.
*Timeless Travels*
The Scythians, superbly written and lavishly illustrated, is the
best account of these hard-riding nomads we are likely to have for
a long time to come. Especially worthy of note are the excellent
maps and diagrams, expertly placed to help the reader chart the
wanderings of the Scythians in some of the world's most remote
locations.
*Ed Voves, Art Eyewitness*
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