"ON THE FRIEZES OF THE PARTHENON we see them in their flowing chitons, wielding short swords and javelins like Olympic athletes. Later Hellenistic friezes, like those on the Thessaloniki sarcophagi, depict them in seductive poses, female warriors with the curves of courtesans. According to Herodotus, Greek soldiers fought them--a glamorous and lethal race of one-breasted military dervishes--at the battle of Thermodon, by the Black Sea. The Scythians called them Oiorpata, or "man killers." But when Achilles killed their queen, Penthesilea, at the siege of Troy, he fell in love with her dying face.
The Amazons are among our oldest and most potently ambiguous myths. So persistent is their hold on the Western psyche that when the Spanish navigated a huge river in South America in1542 they sent back reports of Amazon sightings and the river eventually acquired their name. Then, for nearly five hundred years, nada. The Amazons passed quietly into the realm of myth, where they appeared likely to remain.
Or so it seemed, anyway, until archaeologists working on a dig on the Eurasian steppes made an unexpected find. Between 1992 and 1995, a team led by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, director of the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads, in Berkeley, California, excavated a site of Neolithic kurgans (burial mounds) near Pokrovka, on the Russia-Kazakhstan border. Last January, Davis-Kimball published an account of the dig in Archaeology magazine: an essay accompanied by maps and photographs describing her evidence that female warriors roamed the steppes approximately twenty-five hundred years ago…"
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