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Posted by hobbledog (U3871987) on Friday, 28th April 2006
i've been trying to get a feel for how the Neolithic peoples of the steppes progressed, and, of course, there is such limited information due to their continued nomadism.
what i do know is the basic archaeological findings: horse domestication, burial practices, etc.
but i want what i may not be able to have- a summary of movements and migrations.
i'm a newcomer... is prehistory a sanctioned subject?
thanks bunches,
annie
p.s. if anyone just wants to discuss this fascinating region, i'd be thrilled; i'm not only hounding you for resources!
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See and click on 35 - 30,000 BC
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There is a book by John Hoffecker,2002,"Desolate Landscapes",that could be of interest.
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thank you.
i have recently written a thesis paper on the emergence of agriculture in central asia, which is hard to do, because there is only one real community where agriculture was able to take hold (djeitun, in modern day turkmenistan), and they had to irrigate aggressively, but it got me interested in the nomadic people of the early holocene.
i was researching the neolithic revolution with regard to a theory by Mary Settegast that Zarathustra lived c6500 and was responsible, through missionary work, for the "revolution of symbols." freaking fascinating stuff, as dodgy as it may be.
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Umm, I gather it was Plato that suggested Zarathrusta lived 4000 years before he was writing. It meant that the Greek Orthodox church never took Archbishop Usher's calculation of the date of creation seriously however.
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i know that plutarch and pliny wrote of it. i have never come across that in plato, but you may be saying that you have. what a coincidence that would be!
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Either that or me, Plutarch and Pliny are all aware of Plato and that seems far more likely.
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