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The Stonedisks of Baian-Kara-Ula: May 31, 2007 7:13am 1 review archaeology
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/arqueologia/esp_dropa_5.htm; Thanks Firemonkey08! Very interesting. Peace!2U&Yours! PiTrinam p.s. You play the flute. It is wonderful for the Breath! I have always wanted to learn..

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/may/m21-001.shtml: May 31, 2007 7:12am 0 review archaeology
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Aboriginal Rock Paintings: May 27, 2007 8:51am 1 review archaeology, history, painting, travel, canada
http://www.canoesaskatchewan.rkc.ca/arch/rockart.htm; Churhill River Rock art... a beautiful I visited once when I was a young girl. PiTrinam from the page: "The Stanley Rapids Site. This photo and the rock art reproductions shown here are taken from the book The Aboriginal Rock Paintings of the Churchill River. A map of the Saskatchewan portion of the Churchill River shows the rock art site locations described in the book. Writings on the rocks describes how these reproductions were created. To view a larger detail of the reproductions, click on the graphic."

The Book: Aboriginal Rock Paintings of the Churchill River: May 27, 2007 8:50am 1 review archaeology, history, travel, canada, cree
http://www.canoesaskatchewan.rkc.ca/arch/book.htm; Interesting read. About a book. More to learn. PiTrinam from the page: " Rock art which involves paintings has sometimes been called pictographic. Many scholars simply call it rock painting, because pictograph also refers to drawings done on various media other than rock, like animal skins, wood and bone. Rock engraving is often used outside North America to refer to art involving removal of part of a rock face to make figures, but petroglyph is used by North Americans for the same phenomena. Rock carving is commonly used as an alternative to rock engraving and to petroglyph. Following well established North American usage, I will use the terms rock painting and pictograph interchangeably in this study, both referring to symbols painted on vertical rock faces. The rock art of the Churchill River belongs to the class called rupestral or parietal art by European scholars, distinguishing it from portable art. Parietal art occurs on immovable rock surfaces, while portable art is that found on small stones or utilitarian objects made of stone or any other materials which can easily be carried or moved about. "

Saskatchewan Archaeology Bibliographies: May 27, 2007 8:44am 1 review archaeology, history, travel, canada, saskatchewan
http://www.canoesaskatchewan.rkc.ca/arch/biblio.htm; Very interesting. Relearning, what I learn as a child. PiTrinam

Warrior Women Book Review 2: May 16, 2007 8:54am 1 review archaeology, women, books, ancient-history
http://www.csen.org/Pubs_Sales_Reviews/WW_Book_Announcement/WarriorWomenBook_...; from the review: Move over, Indiana Jones, Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball discovers her passion for archaelogy late in life and desires to excavate the Kurgans of the Eurasian people. When fellow archaeologist Leonid Yablonsky invites her to join an American-Russian team working at Pokrovka on the Russian-Kazakstan border, she gets her chance. As the dig progresses, Davis-Kimball, Yablonsky and the rest of the team unearth the remains of male warriors, men buried with children, warrior women, priestesses, warrior-priestesses, and hearth women. The roles of these ancient individuals are assigned based on the grave goods buried with them. Dr. Davis Kimball writes: "It could not have been more fortuitous for me that the Early Nomads believed their possessions had to be included in their graves." This is the focus point of the book. Starting with the finds at Pokrovka, Dr. Davis-Kimball follows every possible thread in time and space, to give us as complete as possible a picture of the Eurasian people in general and the lives of the women in particular--not just the warrior women, but the priestesses and hearth women as well. Dr. Davis-Kimball states that the Indiana Jones myth of archaeology must be dispelled, and then she goes on a series of travels and adventures (all wonderfully written) that would have daunted even that fictional hero, who I don't think could have faced the KGB with the intelligence and patience she does. Her travels take her from Northern Ireland to western China. She travels in history from about 4000 B.C.E. to the modern day. She visits dozens of museums, many countries, and even lives with a modern day family of nomads. It seems that Dr. Davis-Kimball was motivated to write a book about women, and specifically about warrior women, only after she realized that warrior women's graves had been excavated for over 50 years by other archaeologists, and then the women were all but forgotten. She writes:"I was frustrated by the lack of interest exhibited by many historians and archaeologists regarding the status of women in the societies they studied." And: "I understood that women of high status were hidden in the shadows of traditional interpretations. It was time to launch a treasure hunt." Her gift to the world is to simply tell the truth about what she, and others, have discovered.

Fall 1995 Vol.3 Number 1: May 16, 2007 8:54am 1 review archaeology, women, ancient-history
http://www.arf.berkeley.edu/newsletter/3.1/pokrovka.html; from the page: 1995 Excavations at Pokrovka, Russia Jeannine Davis-Kimball Leonid T. Yablonsky The Kazakh/American Research Project, Inc., directed by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, lead by Leonid T. Yablonsky, completed its fourth successful year of excavations at Pokrovka, Russia. This season thirteen kurgans in three cemeteries were excavated revealing 36 burials pits containing 42 skeletons. The burials date to the Sauromatian Period (6th-4th centuries B.C.) through the Late Sarmatian Period, (2nd-3rd centuries A.D.). Excavations during the 1995 season proved to be rewarding as many additional details of the Sauro-Sarmatian cultures were revealed.

The Amazons: Fact or Fiction?: May 16, 2007 8:54am 1 review archaeology, ancient-history
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/papers/snideramazons/fact_fiction.html; from the page: Jeannine Davis-Kimball is the head archaeologist of a site in Kazakhstan at which burial sites have been unearthed which support the existence of women warriors. Females buried with weapons, as well as other women, some priestesses, some apparently homemakers, give evidence that women did indeed participate in battle. The curved leg bones of one woman attest to a life spent on horseback, which Davis-Kimball concludes is evidence of women's participation in activities that were for the Greeks, male dominated. An arrowhead within the body of another woman apparently was the cause of death, direct evidence of women's participation in battle. The existence of women warriors is also supported by a 1972 discovery in the town of Ordzhonikidze in the southern Ukraine of the grave of a male, female, and infant apparently belonging to a royal caste. Weapons buried alongside the woman again gives evidence of women participating in battle. This once more supports the theory that women were indeed warriors in ancient cultures, but there is no proof that this is the same culture as the Amazons. The burial of a man and infant with the woman instead give evidence of a culture based on equality between men and women, rather than one in which women dominated the culture. This site, like that in Kazakhstan, does not prove the existence of Amazons, but of a culture in which women participated in battle.

Ancient nomads: May 16, 2007 8:53am 1 review archaeology, ancient-history
http://popgen.well.ox.ac.uk/eurasia/htdocs/davis.html; From the page: "Ancient nomads, female warriors and priestesses Jeannine Davis-Kimball Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads Berkeley, California Pastoral nomadism, characterized by the trailing of domesticated animals to better seasonal pastures, was made possible only when horseback riding was a fait accompli. Augmented by the exploitation of pasture lands, and the increased demand for horses created by southern urban centers including the Achaemenid Empire, nomadism greatly increased cultural contacts between far-flung regions. The region in which Eurasian nomads herded their livestock is defined by kurgans (burial mounds), because tribes returned over many years to the same summer pastures where they buried their dead. This region, the great Eurasian steppe, begins in Moldova in the west and continues east across the Ukraine and southern Russia (north of the Black Sea), south and east of the Aral Sea, and through Kazakstan to include southern Siberia, western Mongolia, and western China. Major nomadic cemeteries are located in interfluvials of the Dnieper and Dniester rivers, as well as the deltas of the Amu Darya, Syr Darya, and Don. Kurgans along the great Volga, Samara, and Ural rivers mark nomadic routes that penetrated deeper into the more arid steppe lands. Further east, in the fertile Semirechiye (Seven Rivers) region of Kazakhstan, extra nutritious grasses in the high pastures of the Tien Shan and Altai mountains contributed greatly to the success of nomadism, as the well-being and wealth of nomads is directly dependent upon the health of their herds. Identified from archaeological remains, but also referred to in ancient and contemporary texts, these tribes are known as the Saka, Sauromatians, and Sarmatians, and date to the second half of the first millennium BC. Sedentary populations along the edges of the Talimakan Desert in Xinjiang, China interfaced with the Saka and provided further impetus to nomadism. All nomadic tribes are perceived to have been ruthless raiders, faceless hordes following the commands of Genghis Khan - style leaders, terrorizing citizens of fortified cities, burning, pillaging and raping as they rode ever westward. Ancient historians, interested only in the most horrific exploits of the marauding nomads, gathered their materials from the point of view of the conquered. Archaeologists of the late 19th and 20th centuries amplified the long- standing convictions that the Early Iron Age tribes were warring, strong patriarchal societies. Over the decades archaeologists continued to interpret kurgan burials from this point of view, and individual women, or for that matter men, were not topics of study.