The twenty essays in this book originated from a Metropolitan Museum symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition ?The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes? (2000?2001). Texts by prominent scholars include: ?The Prehistory of Scythian Cavalry: The Evolution of Fighting on Horseback? by David W. Anthony; ?Steppe Nomadic Culture and Political Organization? by Thomas J. Barfield; ?Mobility, Art, and Identity in Early Iron Age Europe and Asia? by Peter S. Wells; ?The Gold of the Griffins: Recent Excavation of a Frozen Tomb in Kazakhstan? by Henri-Paul Francfort, Giancarlo Ligabue, and Zainullah Samashev; and ?Discovery of a Royal Burial of the Scythian Period in Tuva? by Konstantin V. Chugunov, Anatolii Nagler, and Hermann Parzinger.