Against the narrative of “nomadism” – large fortified settlement complexes as urbanization in the forest-steppe and steppepic.twitter.com/EtVMcuqExp
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“Re-evaluating #Scythian nomadism” – Alicia R. Ventresca Miller @steppebioarch #ISBA8
- First issues: scale & terminolog. bounds – Scythians, Sauromatians, Sakas... – overlay of widespread motifs over considerable diffs. in settlement, subsistence/econ., political org., mobilitypic.twitter.com/DsBGewEdn1
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Only small component of these pops highly mobile (in range of early childhood to adolescence), w/ interesting dietary composition correlates. Ongoing turn in Eurasian steppe archaeology towards seeing many of the iconically Scythian expressions of personal & warrior prestige...
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...as “urban” affordances of overall perhaps rather non-mobile and agriculturally-committed societies concentrated in fortified centers
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This would change sooo much about how we teach early history
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