Pazyryk Culture Up in the Altai

Katheryn M. Linduff is University Center for International Studies Professor Emerita in the Departments of Art History and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches at Carnegie-Mellon University in the School of Architecture. She has engaged for many years in art-historical research and collaborative fieldwork, focusing on pre- and early history, including the Bronze and Iron Ages, of the Inner Asian Frontier. She has published on metallurgy, gender, China and Eurasia, the archaeology of Inner Asia and on artifacts.Karen S. Rubinson is a Research Associate, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. She is an art historian and archaeologist specializing in the steppe and Central Asia in the first millennium BCE and early first millennium CE and the South Caucasus in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages. One focus of her work is how objects of artistic production, both aesthetically and technologically, can help understand cultural contact and exchange; another is gender questions in the Eurasian Iron Age.

• 1. Introduction: The shape of Pazyryk Culture 2. Economic topography in the Pazyryk Culture 3. Social and occupational topography of the Pazyryk Culture: Valedictory use of burials 4. The larger picture: Relationships with Mongolia and China 5. The Pazyryk Culture: Concluding remarks