Steppe culture

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“In 1954 National Geographic magazine documented how Kazakh chief Qali Beg led his tribe from Sinkiang, China to safety in Kashmir, India. Part of the tribe's journey was made on specially trained meat-eating horses, who were able to survive in the grassless Takla Makan desert.”

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Three girls from across the vast Eurasian steppe, and their really, really tall headdresses! From left to right: the Russian kokoshnik, the Kazakh saukele, and the Mongol boqtaq. BTW boqtaqs and ko…

Arkaim (Аркаим) is an archaeological site situated in the Southern Urals steppe, 8.2 kilometres (5.1 mi) north-to-northwest of the village of Amurskiy and 2.3 km (1.4 mi) south-to-southeast of the village of Alexandrovskiy, in the Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, just to the north from the Kazakhstan border. The site is generally dated to the 17th century BC. Earlier dates, up to the 20th century BC, have been proposed. It was a settlement of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture. The site was…