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To: blam

The show was fascinating. In a kurgan in the Russian steppes, the archaeologists found a 2500 yr old burial of a woman likely mortally injured in combat. Her apparel matched exactly Herodotus' description of the Amazons, and she was buried with spiritual items and weapons.

Then they drove deep into the backwaters of the Russian steppes and found a modern nomad child with blond hair and very European features whose DNA matched closely the DNA extracted from the Amazon burial. And the villagers still used recurve bows and the tall coned hats of the Amazons.
This is just further support that proto-Europeans penetrated the Steppes and shaped the cultures there. In the larger context of the rise of civilization, it certainly seems to support that as the agricultural societies arose, entire clans of nomadic European people fled to the peripheries of the civilized world. We can only speculate as to their motives in doing so.


8 posted on 08/04/2004 9:37:02 PM PDT by burrian
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It was indeed, very interesting. The patterns on the clothes and other cloth items matched closely as well. The nomads of remote Mongolia appear to have mingled with and descended from these legendary Amazons.


9 posted on 08/04/2004 9:42:06 PM PDT by ODC-GIRL (Proudly serving our Nation's Homeland Defense)
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