Amazons in the Scythia: New finds at the Middle Don, Southern Russia

World Archaeology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 112-125

  Guliaev, V I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Amazons; Barrow (burial mound or kurgan); Herodotus; Scythians; Warroir women; Weapons

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; WAR;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0037930233     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0043824032000078117     Document Type: Article

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