Website review: SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Amazon Warrio...
Bradford54 discovered this in Ancient History
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Bradford54 discovered 20 months ago- Caucasian mummies found in china, excerpts from a fascinating program that attempts to answer what happened to the "amazon women" and their culture
- PiTrinam rated 13 months ago
- A fascinating program on pbs yester-night. ~ PiTrinam from the page: Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball Interview with Jeannine Davis-Kimball As a graduate student studying Iranian art, Jeannine Davis-Kimball knew basically nothing about ancient nomadic peoples, and she never imagined her career would eventually be focused on the enigmatic warrior women who once wandered the Eurasian steppes some 2,000 years ago and provided a historical basis for the myth of the Amazon. Then she happened across carved stone reliefs in one of the palaces of the Archaemedian dynasty, which ruled Persia from 559 to 330 B.C. The reliefs depicted scenes of nomads paying tribute to the kings. In contrast to others honoring the rulers, these people were distinctively dressed, wearing soft boots and tall hats, and they were leading horses. Davis-Kimball was intrigued by the figures, and she thought she knew where she might look for them. "I suspected that I might be able to find some traces of them if I were to go out to the Eurasian steppes," to the north of the Persian empire, "because that is where you would find nomadism," recalls Davis-Kimball, now the director of the American Eurasian Research Institute and its subsidiary, the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomadism, at the University of California at Berkeley. "Nomadism is based on animal husbandry, primarily raising sheep and horses, and you don't find that in cities because the animals have to have pasture land, wide open spaces.
