Domesticated horses are ubiquitous enough in real life and fictional worlds for it to seem like they’ve always just been there, in their “final form,” so to speak. But where and when did we shares, ...

High on a bluff above the Irtysh River in northeastern Kazakhstan, a ghost city lies just beneath the grass. From the surface ...

A research team examining three major regions of the Eurasian steppe shows that soil denitrification, the microbial pathway ...

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a 3,800-year-old hexagon-shaped structure that they describe as a "pyramid." The maze-like structure is not as tall as Egypt's monuments, but currently ...

Sept. 15 (UPI) --Hardened dental plaque coating the ancient teeth of Bronze Age pastoralists suggests the emergence of dairying and milk-drinking coincided with a wave of migration across the ...

Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, No. 3 (March 2023), pp. 395-408 (14 pages) Aim: Grazing intensity and fire patterns across the Eurasian steppes have changed dramatically over the past decades ...

March 2 (UPI) --Archaeological evidence suggests dairy pastoralism originated in southwest Asia. How and when the tradition migrated eastward is less understood. The discovery of 5,000-year-old milk ...

Introduction: The nature of nomads, cultural variation, and gender roles past and present / Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson -- Reconsidering warfare, status, and gender in the Eurasian ...

The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread have been heavily debated by ...