On the issue of the origin of Skifo-Siberian "Animal style"

Authors

  • Mongush H. Mannay-ool Tuvan Institute for the Humanities

Keywords:

Scythian period, animal style, art, archaeological sites, Arzhan-1, Arzhan-2, Tuva

Abstract

 Tribes of the Sajano-Altay region have brought an essential contribution to creation of the Skifo-Siberian art. During the Scythian times Tuva represented one of the important centers of nomadic civilisation of Euroasian steppes. By the level of social, economic and cultural development it did not concede to other territories of the Scythian world.

References

Stepi evropeiskoi chasti SSSR v skifo-sibirskoe vremia. - M., 1989.

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Published

14.09.2009

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Section

Tuva yesterday, today, tomorrow

Author Biography

  • Mongush H. Mannay-ool Tuvan Institute for the Humanities

    Candidate of History, Leading researcher, Sector of Ethnography.

    Postal address: 3A Salchak Tok St., Kyzyl, Russian Federation 667000. 

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