Skeletons unearthed from graves in southeastern Europe bear the earliest known evidence of horse riding in the archaeological record, new research has revealed.

Today, non-urban people living on the Eurasian steppe still practice mobile dairy pastoralism. Researchers suspect milk was even more important to the Bronze Age herders moving across the steppe ...

By the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 to 800 BCE), elk had become stylized symbols—possibly representing status, clan ...

The 9,000 km long Eurasian forest-steppe zone forms a transition between temperate forests and steppe and is a complex mosaic of herbaceous and woody habitats. Thanks to its structural diversity ...

One prevailing theory links the Huns to the Xiongnu, a powerful confederation that ruled the Eurasian steppe from around 200 BCE to 100 CE. The Xiongnu controlled vast territories, stretching from ...

The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread have been heavily debated by ...

The discovery of 5,000-year-old milk proteins suggests populations living on the Eurasian steppe were producing and consuming milk as early as 3000 B.C.

Popularized by myth and historical accounts as horse-riding warrior nomads of the Eurasian steppe, the true story of the Scythians (pronounced Sith-ian) may be more complicated. New research ...

There’s one particular area, called the Eurasian steppe, that stretches from Hungary in the west across the Ukraine and Central Asia all the way to Manchuria in the east, about 5,000 miles long.

Introduction: The nature of nomads, cultural variation, and gender roles past and present / Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson -- Reconsidering warfare, status, and gender in the Eurasian ...