The earliest Scythian animal artefacts

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/expanding-the-corpus-of-the-earliest-scythian-animalstyle-artefacts/2FC8C939618BAF7C64332E03BE1746A7

Up my street....

[Sharur]

This is indeed nice! I've touched on animalistic art before in Slingshot, albeit from a lot further west in central Asia (east of the Caspian Sea), in relation to ancient Mesopotamia, so it's clear such art-forms had widespread interest and use among the peoples of this vast region.