Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen
by Sergei I. Rudenko
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520013956
- ISBN 13
- 9780520013957
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About This Item
University of California Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A well preserved 1970 University of California Press hardcover in a fine sewn binding. Black cloth over boards with decorative gilt lettering along the spine and and the front cover. Dust jacket has faint tanning on the back and has been placed in a protective cover. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Includes b&w illustrations, bibliography and an index. 340 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book makes available in the first complete English translation the detailed account, by its Russian discoverer, of one of the most remarkable pieces of archaeology of this century.
Unrelieved dryness or wetness can preserved wood, leather, or textiles, but in a limited area of the world- Siberia and Mongolia-constant freezing may have the same results. Among the ancient burials from that area the most spectacular remains to have survived are at Pazyryk in the Altai mountains of Western Siberia. They are about 2,500 years old, and even organic material was preserved by 'refrigeration" in virtually pristine condition,
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book makes available in the first complete English translation the detailed account, by its Russian discoverer, of one of the most remarkable pieces of archaeology of this century.
Unrelieved dryness or wetness can preserved wood, leather, or textiles, but in a limited area of the world- Siberia and Mongolia-constant freezing may have the same results. Among the ancient burials from that area the most spectacular remains to have survived are at Pazyryk in the Altai mountains of Western Siberia. They are about 2,500 years old, and even organic material was preserved by 'refrigeration" in virtually pristine condition,
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- 955
- Title
- Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen
- Author
- Sergei I. Rudenko
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520013956
- ISBN 13
- 9780520013957
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Horse-breading, artifacts, preserved, Russia,
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