The Steppes: Crucible of Eurasia - units.muohio.edu - Miami University

PROGRAM
This symposium is held in conjunction with the Miami University Art Museum exhibition, Grass Routes:
Pathways to Eurasian Cultures (August 20–December 8, 2012), which includes Ancient Bronzes of the
Asian Grasslands, an exhibition from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
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Friday, November 30
9:15-9:45 a.m. Morning coffee
9:45-10:00 a.m. Welcome and opening remarks
10:00-11:20 a.m. Claudia Chang and Perry Tourtellotte, Landscapes of Power and Elite
Settlement at the Cusp of the Saka and Wusun Periods in Semirech’ye:
The Talgar Case Study
Jean-Luc Houle, Empire and Domestic Economy: Continuity and Change
in Mongolia’s Bronze and Iron Age Archaeological Landscape
Moderator: Michael Drompp
11:20-11:40 a.m. Break
11:40-1:00 p.m. Leland Rogers, Ancient DNA from the Elite Xiongnu at Ögiinuur Sum,
Arkhangai, Mongolia
Lois Hale, A Recreation of a Pazyryk Pouch
Moderator: Katheryn Linduff
1:00-2:30 p.m. Lunch
Student Poster Session I (Eurasian Nomads and History; Senior Capstone
Seminar: The Horse in Human History)—in Gallery II:
Robert Fink, Horse Meat Consumption in the United States; Zachary
Horstman, Falconry on the Eurasian Steppes; Thomas Hughes, The Takhi
and Its Cousins: How People Have Interacted with Wild Equid Species;
Laine Lagor, The Horse in the Circus; Andrew Mackin, Creating the
Barbarian Myth; Troy Phillippe, The Horse in Early 20 th Century Film;
Nicholas Schnitzler, America: A Country Built by Horses; Brian Smith,
Eurasian Nomads’ Geneses; Emily Volkmann, Horses of the Mexican-
American War
2:30-3:50 p.m. Michael Drompp, Political Dimensions of Religion in Early Medieval
Inner Asian Empires
Christopher Atwood, The Appanage Community: A New Model for
Understanding Social Structure in the Pre-Modern Mongolian Plateau
Moderator: Yihong Pan
3:50-4:10 p.m. Break
4:10-5:30 p.m. Robert Wicks, Bird-Headed Antler Tines: Stability and Change in Ancient
Eurasian Art
Trudy Kawami, The Image of the Coiled Feline in the Eurasian Steppes
Moderator: Kenneth Lymer
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