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Ancient Horsemen Of Siberia (Time Travelers) | 
 enlarge | Author: Buell Janet
Publisher: 21st Century
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1300919
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 63
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0761330054
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.09573
EAN: 9780761330059
ASIN: 0761330054
Publication Date: April 1, 1998
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Condition: Former library book with typical stamps and stickers. Book is otherwise in very good condition. No highlighting, underlining or writing. We ship daily with delivery confirmation from NYC.
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 All the Fine Young Pazyryks March 23, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Could the first horse riders swooping around Siberia about 2,500 years ago have been the mythological half-horse half-human Centaurs? We call them Pazyryk for the burial mounds they left in the Ukok plateau. Some of these ANCIENT HORSEMEN OF SIBERIA were women, such as the mummy known as Leti: about 25 years old, she was a tall 5'6", buried in a fine headdress and well-preserved clothing; with elaborate shoulder, thumb and wrist tattoos, was she a medicine woman or one of the legendary Amazon warriors? This fascinating read is all the more precious because there is so little available in English on the Pazyryk, other than Olga Kharitidi's reference in ENTERING THE CIRCLE, Nova's SIBERIAN ICE MAIDEN video, and Sergei Rudenko's out-of-print masterpiece FROZEN TOMBS OF SIBERIA. Author Janet Buell similarly combines clues and facts in ICE MAIDEN OF THE ANDES, the mummy found by mountaineers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate (DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN) and the subject of David Getz's FROZEN GIRL, Nova's FROZEN IN HEAVEN video, and Susan Vande Griek's A GIFT FOR AMPATO.
 Useful for Adults December 22, 2002
Jonathan S. Mark (Alexandria, VA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book is nicely illustrated with photos of Pazyryk grave goods and mummies. It had a few major omissions. It starts talking about the Scythians but doesn't show a map of where the Scythians lived. It also doesn't explain whether the Scythians were Asiatic like the Pazyryk probably were. An ancient felt painting of a Scythian that the book shows suggests that the Scythians were not Asiatic. So what is the connection between the Scythians and the Pazyryk? Why is the Scythian material included? The photo of the tattoos on the 2500-year-old mummy was stunning. It was a glimpse into an alien world.
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