PASTORI ERRANTI DELL'ASIA, POPOLI, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA NELLE STEPPE DEI KIRGHISI

The volume published in the occasion of an Exhibition with the title "Pastori erranti dell'Asia, Popoli, Storia ed Archeologia nelle terre dei Kirghisi" held in Naples presents different contributions of Italian and Kirghisian specialists. The main topic of the exhibition, made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Archeological Museum of Naples, the Biskek Museum, and the Italian-Kazakhian Cultural Institute, is the archaeology of that country to the light of the traditional and originarian nomadic nature of the people who had lived there. The large amount of objects exposed, among which should be emphasized those in golden and silver, gives a clear idea to what extent the nomadic cultures of Central Asia were able to reach an very high level in the artistic and material production. Between Iran and China Kirghisistan saw in time the formative processes of the pastoral nomadism which so much conditioned the life and the culture of the steppe peoples.