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  2. Scytho-Siberian art - Wikipedia

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    Scytho-Siberian art is the art associated with the cultures of the Scytho-Siberian world, primarily consisting of decorative objects such as jewellery, produced by the nomadic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe, with the western edges of the region vaguely defined by ancient Greeks.

  3. Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia

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    Calibrated carbon-14 dates for Çatalhöyük, as of 2013 [1]. Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk / ˌ tʃ ɑː t ɑː l ˈ h uː j ʊ k / cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic ...

  4. Scythian culture - Wikipedia

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    the largest of these earthworks was the earthwork of Bilsk (near the present-day village of Bilsk), located on the Vorskla River, and dating from the 8th to 4th centuries BC. The Bilsk site covered 4,400 hectares and had an outer rampart running a length of 30 kilometres, and possessed three acropoleis on the inside which respectively were 120 ...

  5. List of nomadic peoples - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries .

  6. Central Asian art - Wikipedia

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    After the Timurids conquered Persia in the early 15th century, many Persian artistic traits became interwoven with existing Mongol art. Timur made Samarkand one of the centers of Islamic art and remained a subject of interest to Ibn Khaldun. [199] In the mid 15th century the empire moved its capital to Herat, which became a focal point for ...

  7. Hunnic art - Wikipedia

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    Jewelry and weapons attributed to the Huns are often decorated in a polychrome, cloisonné style. [7] Archaeologist Joachim Werner argued that the Huns developed a unique "Danubian" style of art that combined Asiatic goldsmithing techniques with the enormous amount of gold given as tribute to the Huns by the Romans; this style then influenced ...

  8. Yangshao culture - Wikipedia

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    A model of Jiangzhai, a Yangshao village. Next, a few short wattle poles would be placed around the top of the pit, and more wattle would be woven to it. It was plastered with mud, and a framework of poles would be placed to make a cone shape for the roof. Poles would be added to support the roof. It was then thatched with millet stalks.

  9. Nabataean architecture - Wikipedia

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    Several canals were made of stone cut from blocks of local marl or limestone. With a length of 60 to 90 cm, this type of canal has been used since the 1st century BC, until the Byzantine period. The so-called gravity system was most often used, the networks of pressurized pipes - ceramic pipes - were little used for the transportation of water ...