Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi kurgan 54–5 "
Danube and Don kurgans 55
human remains 52–7
Issyk (Esik) kurgans 67–74
Minusinsk Hollow kurgans 55–6
Pokrovka Sarmatian kurgans 96–101
Saka kurgans 67–74
artefacts 69–73
Tuva kurgans 56–74
Tyasmin River kurgan 54
women warriors 54–6
Laemmle, Carl, and Marston 249
Lafitau, Joseph-François
Moeurs des sauvages amériquains 152–4
Amazons 152–4, 171
on Hurons’ Amazon descent 152–3, 214
Lake Thun 187–8
Lamprière, Classical Dictionary 204
Laocoön statue 164
Lepore, Jill, The Secret History of Wonder Woman 242–62
Leus, Pavel 60
lie detectors (Marston) 245, 250
and Lasso of Truth 258
Limanova, Galya 231
Lisbon earthquake 170
Little Turgen River, (BTG) burial area 88–91
Litvyak, Lilya ‘The Girl Avenger’ 234–7
Locke, John 169
Louis XIV, King of France 170–1
‘love meter’ experiment 249
Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria 20
Luther, Martin, Reformation 160
Luwians 3
Lycurgus 188
Lydia, and Cimmerians 37
Lysimachus, and Onesicritus 41–2
Machiparo people 137
machismo, amazonomachy as prop 23–6
Maeotis (Sea of Azov) 7–8
Magdeburg 1631 massacre 161
Mahi kingdom 193
Maiden Goddess, Scythians 35
Manchuria 32, 106
Marcus Aurelius Sarmaticus, conquers Alans 102
Marivaux, Pierre de 173
marmalade 44
Marston, William Moulton
and bondage 246–8
and Byrne 246–53, 258
and comic books 252
‘Why 100, 000, 000 Americans Read Comics’ 253–4
‘Wonder Woman’ comic superhero xviii, 255–8
and Gaines 253
and Holloway 245–60
and Huntley 246–8, 250, 256
and Laemmle 249
and lie detectors 245, 250, 258
and Pitkin, The Art of the Sound Picture 249
Emotions of Normal People 248
experimental psychology 245–60
on start of American Amazons matriarchy 251
Try Living 251
Martial, on Alans 101–2
Masaryk, Jan 160
Massagetae Scythians 36, 38–42, 53
defeat Persians 38, 42
gender equality 38
matriarchies, none yet discovered 215
Medea 25
Medici, Marie de 166
Mediterranean fabric dyes, Ukok clothing 86–7
Meklin, Natasha 233–4
Menalippe
possibly in Bassae Frieze 22
du Boccage on 175–7
Menkov, Nikolai 236
Mesopotamia 37
metalwork, Uyuk Culture 57
Meyerowitz, Eva, on last Dahomey Amazon 212
Migunova, Ekaterina, on Raskova 222
Milton, John, Paradise Lost 173
mining, Uyuk Culture 57
Minusinsk Hollow kurgans 55–6
Mongolia 54
and modern horseback archery 120
Pazyryk people 88–91
children, as jockeys 105
milk products 34
Montalvo, Garci de, Amadís de Gaula, Exploits of Esplandian 128–34
Montesquieu, Baron de, De l’esprit des lois 175
Moscow to Komsomolsk first flight attempt 217–19
Mount Holyoke college 244
mounted archery see horseback archery
Mounted Archery Association of the Americas 120
movies, experimental psychology and 249–50
Ms magazine 261
Murphy, Eileen, on Scythian palaeopathology 62–7
Mycenae, walls 3
Mycenaean Greeks 3–5
Myres, Sir John, on Herodotus 52
mythology, fashionable 23–5
Nachthexen see Night Bombers
Nagler, Anatoli 60
Napoleon 19n3, 20, 168
Nashville, Parthenon Athena replica 17
National College Equal Suffrage League 244
National Geographic, Polosmak on Ice Maiden 81, 82
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, and Golden Man (woman) 73
Nazca Desert 85
New Women, United States 244–5, 257
Newton, Isaac 169
Night Bombers (USSR) anti-flak technique 229–30
as 46th ‘Taman’ Guards 237, 239
as 588th Regiment 221–40
as Nachthexen/Nochnye Vedmi (night witches) 227
at Southern Front 225–8, 229–33
finally issued underwear 230–1
first see German devastation 233–4
morale/efficiency 226–7
moved north-west 233–7
statistics 239–40
U2 biplanes 223–40
Nile, Burton seeks source 195
Nochnye Vedmi see Night Bombers
Norris, Robert, on Dahomey women bodyguards 192–3
North Ossetia-Alania 102
Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography 80, 83
Nujin, woman fighter, on YPJ 270–1
Nurapiesov, Beken, on Saka grave theft 69–70
Öcalan, Abdullah
and Kurdish women fighters 267–9, 271
Liberating Life: Women’s Revolution 268
Odysseus 11, 64
Oeoropata (man-killers), Scythian on 93
Olbia, Herodotus at 31–3
Omagua people 137–8
Onesicritus, on Alexander and Amazons 41–2
Operation Barbarossa 219–33
Orellana, Francisco de
on ‘Amazon’ communities 138–49
on Amazon river people 136–49, 152–3
Orithia/Orithya
possibly in Bassae Frieze 22
du Boccage’s Amazon queen 174–7
Ossetian language 54, 102
Otrar 68
Oviedo, Fernández de, on Carvajal 146
Oyo empire, Nigeria 193, 197, 206
palaeopathology 62–7
Pankhurst, Emmeline 244
Paradise Island (Wonder Woman) 256–7
Paris (Greek) 3
Paris (France) 166
salons 171–3, 178, 180
Parthian shots 110
Parzinger, Hermann 60
pastoral nomads 29–37
Paulus, General Friedrich, surrenders 233
Pausanias, on Peloponnese temples 17–18
Payne, Neil, and horseback archery 118
Pazyryk people, Ukok Plateau 79–88
artefacts 77, 81–2
Chinese bride carriage 77
embalming 76–7, 87
frozen graves 75–88
headdresses 76, 87
imported clothing 86–7
Mongolia 88–91
tattoos 77–8, 81, 85–6
Pe-2 dive-bombers 222
peccadillo 44
Peloponnese temples 17–18
Pennington, Reina, Wings, Women and War 224, 239
Penthesilea (sister of Hippolyte) 12–16
possibly in Bassae Frieze 21–2
Kleist version 183–8
Penthesilea, Kleist play 183–9
Persians 25
and Scythians 37–8
beads, Pokrovka 98
failed invasion of Scythian lands 94–6
Greek depictions 24
Greeks defeat 16
Saka portrait 71
Peruvian Virgins of the Sun 147
Peter Pan xv-xvi
Peter th
e Great 52, 62
Petit, Pierre, De Amazonibus dissertatio 46–7
Petlyakov, Vladimir, Pe-2 dive-bombers 222
Pfuel, Ernst von, Kleist and 187–8
Phaedra and Hippolytus 9
Phasis River Amazons 39–42
Phidias, Parthenon Athena 17
Philippis 7
philosophers, Enlightenment 169–80
Phrygians 11
Pinzón, Vicente Yáñez, finds Amazon River 132
Piraha people 145–6
Pitkin, Walter B. 249
Pizan, Christine de, on Amazons 126–7
Pizarro, Gonzalo, does not find El Dorado 134–8
Plutarch
on Alexander and Amazons 39, 40
on Amazon invasion of Greece 8–10
on Onesicritus 41–2
Podarkes, and Penthesilea 13, 16
Pokrovka, Sarmatian kurgans 96–101
Polikarpov, Nikolai, U2 biplane 223–4
polis concept xvii
Polosmak, Natalia, and Ukok Devochka 79–83, 84–88
Pontic Steppe 32
Pope, Alexander, on Newton 169
Popov, Dmitrii, and Night Bombers 225
Porto-Novo, French at 209
Portugal and Spain, and Americas 131–2
Pouqueville, François, Travels in the Morea . . . 18–19n3
Prague, defenestrations 160
Prankish (Kassai’s horse) 109
Pravda, on Raskova’s state funeral 232
prehistoric societies, tracing cultural evolution 214
Prescott, William 147
Priam, King of Troy 3, 11–16
Prothoe 7
psychological analysis, Kleist’s Penthesilea 186–90
psychologists, repeating breast myth 47–8
Purchas, Samuel, on Amazons as fantasy 150
Qasim, Leyla, Saddam Hussein assassination attempt 266
Quintus, on Trojan War 11–16
Racine, Jean, Phèdre 176
Radloff, Wilhelm (Vasily) 74
Rakobolskaya, Irina
on group solidarity 227
on why no parachutes 224
Raleigh, Sir Walter, on ‘Amazons’ 149–50
Rambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne Marquise de, salon 172
Raphael Santi, The Battle of Constantine Against Maxentius 165
Raskova, Marina, air navigator 217–25, 229–32
forms women’s combat aviation unit 219–25, 229–32
killed en route to Stalingrad 231–2
Notes of a Navigator 218
state funeral in Moscow 232
reality and myth 23–4
Reformation 160
Renaissance, and Amazons 124
Rio Negro 138
Rodina (Motherland) long-range bomber 217–19
Rojava (Kurdish Syria)
Women’s Defence Units (YPJ) 269–72
Kurds liberate cities 271
women in academic/public life 272–3
Romans, and Greek art 25–6
Rostov, Night Bombers and 225–6
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 175
royal tombs, Uyuk Culture 57–61
Royal Geographical Society, and Burton 195
Royal Scythians 32
Rubens, Peter Paul
and Alethea Howard 168
and Brueghel, The Battle of the Amazons 163–5
as diplomat 165–6
realism in own Battle of the Amazons 166–8
engraves/publishes picture 167–8
Rudenko, Sergei, and Pazyryk valley frozen graves 75–7, 81
Rudneva, Zhenya 227
Russell, Lord John 197–8
Russia
Bolshevik Revolution 216
Night Bombers see Night Bombers
southern
Alans, as Ossetians 102
Sarmatians dominate 101
steppe 26, 32–4, 37, 42, 45, 58, 62, 95, 106, 117
Night Bombers and 221, 226, 234
Russian Academy of Sciences 96
Saddam Hussein 266, 270
Saka (Sacae) Kazakhstan 53, 100
kurgans 67–74
artefacts 69–73
Sakarya River 11
Salomatin, Alexei 234, 235
salons 171–3, 178, 180
Salsk, Night Bombers at 228
Sanger, Margaret
and contraception 244–5, 251
Woman and the New Race 245, 257
Sappho of Normandy, Voltaire on du Boccage as 173, 180
Sappho of Lesbos 180, 204, 246, 257, 259
Sarmatian people
and Scythians 93–6
and Persian invasion 94–6
artefacts, Pokrovka 97–101
imported 98–9
history 93–103
in Britain as Roman troops 102
migrations 101–3
become Alans (Aryans) 101
push Scythians west 88
Pokrovka kurgans evidence 96- 101
religion, Pokrovka evidence 100–1
women, Pokrovka evidence 97–101
girl with sword 99–100
mounted archery 100
religious roles 100–1
see also Sauromatians
Sauromatians 25
early Sarmatians 93–4
Herodotus on 51
Hippocrates on 45–6
see also Sarmatians
Schiller, Friedrich von, ‘Das Lied von der Glocke’ 184
Schlegel brothers, Shakespeare translation 182
Scopasis, Scythian commander, and Persian invasion 94–6
Scythian world 51–101
descriptions
Akkadian records 37
Altai Mountains, frozen graves 74–7
Herodotus on 31–7, 46, 51–2
kurgans see kurgans palaeopathology 62–7
cultures, extent 53–4
become Hunno-Sarmatians 61
displace Cimmerians 31, 37
dynasties 37
Indo-European languages 54
merge with Turco-Mongolians 89
trade routes 54
Uyuk Culture 57–67
homeland, extent 31, 32–4
inner Asia 30–7
Tuva heartland 56–74
and Sarmatians 93–6
Persian invasion 94–6
attack Persia & Assyrian empire 87–8
customs/religion
artefacts 52–3
bald/shaved/scalped 35, 54n10, 63, 76, 87
cannibalism, Herodotus on 35
congenital defects, tolerance 62, 63–7
gods, Herodotus on 35
human sacrifice, Herodotus on 35–6
milk products 34
saunas 36–7
wagon homes 34
women fighters ‘Amazons’, 7–8, 25
as children, learn to ride and shoot 105
evidence for 65–7
not distinct from society 213–14
see also specific cultures
Sebrova, Irina 233
Shakespeare, in German 182
Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night’s Dream 150
shamans, Altai Republic 83
Siberia 54
Minusinsk Hollow kurgans 55–6
Sinjar, Yazidi (Ezidi) people, IS and 269
Skliros 17–20
slave trade, Benin 193, 196, 197, 198, 206
Slee, J. Noah 245, 246
Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations 169
Solois and Antiope 9
Southern Front, Night Bombers at 225–8, 229–33
Soviet women air fighters WWII 216–40
Spain and Portugal, and Americas 131–2
Sparta, black (Dahomey) 191–212
Speke, John Hanning 195
Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene 150
spindle whorls, Pokrovka 98–9
spondylolysis, in women 65
Squire, Jane, on
longitude 179
St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum 60, 61
Scythian gold 52
Stalingrad
Night Bombers defend 225–8, 229–33
Germans surrender 233
Star Trek 156
Stearns, Katie, and horseback archery 120–1
Steinem, Gloria 260–1
stonework, Uyuk Culture 57
Sturm und Drang movement 181, 183
submission & dominance/compliance & inducement 246–7
suffrage movement
US 244–5
UK 216
Superman (Action Comics) xvi, 252
Syria, Kurds
Kurdish, Women’s Defence Units (YPJ) 269–73
Qamishli uprising 270–1
women, fighting Daesh/IS 263–4, 268–73
Szegedi, Andrea 107
Tabiti, Sarmatian/Scythian goddess 101
Taman Peninsula campaign, Night Bombers shot down at 237–9
Tanais, Kleist’s version 186
Tauri Scythians 35
Tegea, temple 18
Teixeira, Pedro de 151
Teletskoye Lake 75
Termes, modern, Amazon festival 6
Terracotta Army 99
Thalestris, Amazon queen and Alexander, Curtius on 39–41
Thatcher, Margaret, as Amazon 264
Themiscyra (Termes), Amazon capital 5
and Alexander the Great 38–42
Wonder Woman version 256
Thermodon (Terme) River 5–6
Amazons 39–42
Thersites, on Achilles 15
Theseus, and Amazons 8–10, 42
and Antiope (Amazon) 9
du Boccage version 174–7
possibly in Bassae Frieze 22
Rubens/Brueghel version 164–5
Thevet, André, Singularities of the French Antarctic 148–9
Thirty Years’ War 160–3, 165–6, 168
Thymnes, Scythian agent 32
Tibetan plateau 32
Tien Shan 32, 67
Times, on Kleist/Vogel suicide 189–90
Timofeyeva, Zhenya, leads Women’s Heavy Bombers 232–3
Tiryns, walls 3
titanomachies art theme 16
Tomyris (Massagetae queen), defeats Persians 38, 42
Trajan, conquers Alans 102
Trojan Horse 11
Troy (Hisarlik), Siege of 3, 10–16
amazonomachies (‘Amazon battles’) art theme 16–17, 21
as machismo prop 23–6
du Boccage, Les Amazones 173–8
Rubens/Brueghel version 164–5
Rubens’ own Battle of the Amazons 166–8
Turco-Mongolians, merge with Scythians 89
Turkey
Hittites 3, 5
horseback archery 121
Luwians 3
Turkish government, and Bassae 19–20
Tuva, Scythian heartland
kurgans 56–74
Xiongnu (Hunnu) replace Sarmatians 101
Tyasmin River kurgan 54
Tyras Greek colony 55
Uffington White Horse 85
Ukok people
nationalism 82–3
Plateau 79–88
archaeologists banned 84
Princess 72
grave 79–88
UNESCO World Heritage List, Ukok 82