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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:38:14 +0300, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=F0=C5=D3=DE=C1=CE=D9=CA_=EC=C9=D3?= <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I have the idea to discuss the phenomenon of Sintashta culture. Herodutus, 500 BCE, speaks of two kinds of Scythians, the nomads and the urbanites, with different names and cultures for each. He notes further different physical traits, the latter red-haired and blue eyed. Warfare would have been inevitable, for it is in the nature of cities to increase population, and thereby try to claim more farmland and serfs to support it. The nomadic cultures tend to regard the ownership of land as blasphemous. God made the grass to grow, and if She had wanted wheat, that's what would have grown without the aid of farmers... would have been their perspective. The cities need hierarchy, and were patriarchic, the nomads were egalitarian and matriarchic in that era before the invention of the stirrup which allowed men to put their weight on their feet, and not the seat, where their balls would have been subject to injury in acrobatic horsemanship of battle. Women didn't have the problem, so the so-called "Scythian Princess" graves in the Siberian permafrost remain without any evidence of nomadic kings, which these 'Amazons' did not have. -- Arachne V1.50;beta, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%