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It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Asia Because Boundless Conditions Flight Gave Harsh Heroes Heroines Said Tales

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From about 700 B.C. to A.D. 500, the vast territory of Scythia, stretching from the Black Sea to China, was home to diverse but culturally related nomads. Known as Scythians to Greeks, Saka to the Persians, and Xiongnu to the Chinese, the steppe tribes were masters of horses and archery.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: About Archery Black China Chinese Diverse Greeks Home Horses Known Masters Related Sea Stretching Territory Tribes Vast Were

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I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Again Appeal Could Egalitarian Equality Get Granted Happen Happened Key Logical Message Most Necessary Once People Place Society Taken Taken For Granted Think Time Where Whole I Think

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That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appealing in antiquity, and, throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, they're always portrayed as heroic, courageous, and the equals of men, and that's just extremely attractive and has been since antiquity.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Ages Always Antiquity Appealing Attractive Been Courageous Equals Extremely Heroic Just Known Men Middle Middle Ages Notion Portrayed Renaissance Since Throughout Warriors Whole Women

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Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Ancient Aristotle Exist Expressed Fossils Historians Just Knowledge Language Many Mentioned Natural Perceiving Scholars Study Then Used

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I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: About Abundant Also Amazing Discovered Embedded Fossil Fossils Greek Knowledge Lot Myths Natural Out People Perceptions Places Pretty Showing Sites Specific Take Those Turn Were You

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Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Arrows Been Bows Digging Fought Graves Greeks Horses Hunted Just Like Men Out People Rode Thousands Turn Up Used Whose Women

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Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Archery Centered Children Classical Greece Home Horses Lives Mind Patriarchal Rome Settled Societies Stayed Tribes Unlike Weave Where Women

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Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been open to interested girls. Archaeology suggests that eagle huntresses were probably more common in ancient times.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Although Always Ancient Ancient Times Archaeology Been Certainly Common Eagle Females Girl Hunting Interested Male More Open Than Times Today Were

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Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Abound Antiquity Burial Eagle Evidence Hunting Imagery Other Pointing Who Whose Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

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