Food in Early Central Asia
Dried sour yogurt balls in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (thanks to Jeff and Becca Zanatta) Central Asian meat and dairy The nomads who lived in Central Asia, like the Scythians, the Mongols and [...]
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Environment of Central Asia
Central Asian steppe What is the steppe? By the time the first Neanderthals reached Central Asia, maybe about 100,000 BC, most of Central Asia was covered by hundreds of miles [...]
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What is an aurochs? Central Asian Environment
Cave painting of a herd of aurochs (about 14000 BC) When did the aurochs evolve? Around fifty million years ago, after the dinosaurs died, large mammals started to evolve from smaller mammals [...]
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Knotted rugs – Central Asian Economy
Pazyryk rug (ca. 300 BC) Where are the first knotted rugs from? The world's first knotted rugs were probably made just south of the Caspian Sea in what is now [...]
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What was the Silk Road? Central Asian Economy
Mongol herdsman Hunting wild animals The first people moved into Central Asia about 50,000 BC. They were probably following the big animals that they hunted for food and leather skins [...]
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Scythian clothing – Central Asian clothing history
Plaid wool fabric from about 1000 BC, from western China It's cold in Central Asia Central Asia is pretty far north, so it's pretty cold there. More about Central Asian [...]
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Russian clothing history – Central Asian clothing
The Svyatoslav Family (Kiev, ca. 1000 AD) At the western end of Central Asia , Russian people, who were mostly farmers and not herdsmen in the Middle Ages, dressed more like their Byzantine [...]
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What clothes did Mongols wear? Central Asian clothing
Kyrgyz women spinning Around 1000 AD, the Mongols were still wearing mostly hemp clothing like the earlier Scythians. But in addition to their tunics, the Mongols sewed the hemp into [...]
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Central Asian Music
Chinese woman playing an erhu: early bowed instruments Plucking a hunting bow to make music Central Asia was the place where people invented the ancestors of violins and cellos. Siberian or Mongolian [...]
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Central Asian Art
Tillya Tepe gold crown - Afghanistan, ca. 100 BC-100 AD Art you can carry around Because the people of Central Asia started out as nomads, riding their horses and camels [...]
