... and climate conditions of the Eurasian steppe and how they might have predetermined the nomad’s approach to image-making. Having established that in its early stages, steppe art was entirely zoomorphic, the author explores the ambiguous biography of “animal style”. The chapter re-defines “animal style...

... repertoire. There is particular emphasis on animals in Scythian art, where it is not the natural, physical appearance of creatures, but a symbolic, emblematic rendering in abstract form that is accentuated (for a summary of the Scythian Animal style, see Jettmar 1964 ; Kossack 1987 ; Schiltz 1994...

... Yidi Tomb dou zun lacquer pictorial and figurative art in Warring States period Xinyang Tomb 1 “Animal Style” motif in bronzes Baihuatan hu vessel silk banners in Warring States period tombs Zhongshan Western Zhou bronze inscriptions Western Zhou period Zhou spirit objects Inner and outer...

...It is often assumed that animal-style design belongs to “Eurasia BCE”, and that the zoomorphic image systems of early pastoralists died out soon after the dawn of the first millennium. The archaeological record, however, points to several important resurgences of animal-style art. This chapter...

... their applications in establishing the connections between Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England during the seventh century. It describes the animals and plants in Christian objects and suggests that they are variants of the Germanic Animal Style II defined by Bernhard Salin. The chapter also argues that these objects...

... culture nomadic Scythian Altai Amu Darya animal style Araxes River burial China Chinese Cimmerian s deer stones Eastern Europe Herodotus horse equipment Inner Asia lifestyle nomadic material culture migration nomadic Siberia Tuva Volga River weapons Azerbaijan Babylon Babylonians...

... of nomads, and some Dyakovo bone artefacts in pseudo-Animal style were manufactured under their influence. Despite changing styles, there was a basic continuity in material culture. Related populations inhabited the Volga-Oka-Don watershed, where hillforts and open villages of the Gorodets culture...