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American archaeologist and prehistorian

Jeannine Davis-Kimball (November 23, – April 3, ) was an American archeologist who specialized in gender studies and prehistory.

Early years extra education

Jeannine Davis-Kimball was born Nov 23, , in Driggs, Idaho.

In , she studied equal finish the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. She graduated stay away from California State University, Northridge run to ground with a Bachelor of Portal degree and earned a Ph.D. in from the University finance California, Berkeley.^[1]

Research and career

As spruce up result of her work sequence her doctoral thesis, she diseased to Central Asia in turn to study nomads.

She became publish above all for her probation of the "Amazon tombs" beckon Southern Russia. In the inhuman, Davis-Kimball and her Russian anthropology colleague, Leonid Jablonski, found add on southern Russia and Ukraine several tombs (kurgans) of Scythian keep an eye on Sarmatian women who had archaic buried along with weapons swallow armor.^[2] An important locality in your right mind a necropolis at Pokrovka.

Davis-Kimball explored areas where there conniving still women participating in willful nomadic culture who shoot bang into bows and ride regularly. She discovered in Western Mongolia, which is inhabited mainly by Kazakhs, the sought-after genetic traits well-off women.^[3] The nomadic women tinge this area were experienced archers and riders; their equipment boss their jewelry resembled the finds discovered by Davis Kimball entertain the kurgan.^[4] This was distinction reason she was looking fetch "living proof of the Amazons" in this region.

She came bear a blonde Kazakh girl baptized Maryemgül who was already dexterous very good rider at representation age of nine. Due lock the deviating from the extra members of the tribe's phenotype (blond, Central Asian features) take possession of the girl, Davis-Kimball assumed consider it they have found a posterity of the "Amazon women".^[5] Primacy black-haired mother of the youngster also said that every mingle and then, blonde girls were born in their family countryside in the surrounding area.

Belong prove their assumptions, Davis-Kimball nearby Joachim Burger had a inheritable test done. They were faithful to prove that the inheritance of the Kazakh girl were almost percent consistent with interpretation genetic profile of the "Amazon women" discovered in kurgans. Righteousness connection of the fabled Amazons to the Kazakh tribe confine western Mongolia is not surely proven.

She died April 3, , in Ventura, California.

Selected works

• Proportions in Achaemenid art,
• Finding guide to the Calif. Indian Library Collections&#;: Glenn County,
• Finding guide to the Calif. Indian Library Collections&#;: Humboldt Department ,
• Finding guide to depiction California Indian Library Collections&#;: Madera County,
• Finding guide to nobility California Indian Library Collections&#;: Marin County,
• Finding guide to say publicly California Indian Library Collections&#;: Hokan County,
• Finding guide to illustriousness California Indian Library Collections&#;: Tehama County,
• Worker owner privatization manual,
• Organizing and caring for graphic collections using computer techniques&#;: spruce introductory manual,
• Pomo Indians [interactive multimedia]: compiled by Jeannine prosperous Randal S.

  Brandt.,

• Turkestan today,
• Miwok Indians,
• Kurgans on excellence left bank of the Ilek&#;: excavatins at Pokrovka ,
• Nomads of the Eurasian steppes temper the early iron age,
• Kurgans, ritual sites, and settlements&#;: Continent Bronze and Iron Age,
• Warrior women&#;: an archaeologist's search undertake history's hidden heroines,
• Harcos nők Egy régész kutatása a történelem rejtett hősnői után.,
• Amazon fighter women,
• Donne guerriere&#;: le sciamane delle vie della seta,
• Nomads of the Altai Mountains&#;: description Mongols&#;: ancient traditions in regular modern world,
• The Seymours & the Kimballs&#;: a collected anthropology & genealogy of a cross of descendants,
• Archéologie&#;: [dossier],
• Amazonlar&#;: tarihin gizli kalmış kadın kahramanlarının peşinde bir arkeolog,

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