Jeannine Davis-Kimball

Jeannine Davis-Kimball (born November 23, 1929 in Diggs , Idaho , † April 3, 2017 in Ventura , California ) was an American archaeologist .

Life

Jeannine Davis-Kimball studied at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain in 1972 . She received a Bachelor of Arts from California State University, Northridge in 1978 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. (Doctor of Philosophy). As a result of her work on her doctoral thesis, she went to Central Asia in 1985 to study nomads there. She was best known for her research on the “Amazon graves” in southern Russia. In the 1990s, Jeannine Davis-Kimball and her Russian archeology colleague Leonid Jablonski found numerous graves ( kurgan ) of Scythian or Sarmatian women who had been buried with weapons and armor in southern Russia and the Ukraine . An important site is a necropolis near Pokrovka.

Amazons theory

Davis-Kimball explored areas where there are still women in active nomadic culture who shoot bows and ride regularly. In western Mongolia, which is predominantly inhabited by Kazakhs , she discovered the genetic traits she was looking for in women. The nomadic women of this area were skilled archers and riders, and their equipment and jewelry resembled those found in the Kurgan graves discovered by Davis-Kimball.

That's why she looked for her “living proof of the Amazons” in this region. In doing so, she came across a blonde Kazakh girl named Maryemgül. At nine years old, she was already a very good rider. Because of the phenotype (blonde, Central Asian features) of the girl, which differs from the other members of the tribe , Davis-Kimball assumed that she had found a descendant of the "Amazon women" she discovered in women's graves. The girl's black-haired mother also announced that blonde girls were born every now and then in her family group and in the surrounding area.

In order to finally prove their suspicions, Davis-Kimball and Joachim Burger had a genetic test carried out. They were able to prove that the genetics of the Kazakh girl matched almost one hundred percent with the genetic profile of the “Amazon women” discovered in Kurganen. The connection between the legendary Amazons and the Kazakh tribe in western Mongolia is not conclusively proven.

literature

Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Eileen M. Murphy, Ludmila Koryakova, Leonid T. Yablonksy: Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and Settlements: Eurasian Bronze and Iron Age. BAR International Series 890, Archeopress, Oxford 2000 ( book download in multiple PDF files , accessed June 16, 2013).

Web links

ZDF Terra X: Legendary Peoples: The Amazons Puzzle . Documentation, ZDF, Germany 2004. A comprehensive documentation of Davis-Kimball's research and genetic testing of the "Amazon women". Other parts of the text:
- Myth put to the test, grave bones DNA test ,
- Living tradition: the weapons of the nomad warriors ,
- Meiramgul, the little Amazon: Identical DNA structures ,
- Literature and links (all accessed on June 16, 2013).
Rasa von Werder: The Woman Who Found The Living Amazons: Interview of Jeannine Davis-Kimball . In: womanthouartgod.com , 2006 (accessed June 16, 2013).
Jeannine Davis-Kimball: Statues of Sauromatian and Sarmatian Women . In: The Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads (CSEN) , USA 2001 (accessed June 16, 2013).
Product Summary: Warrior Women, by Jeannine Davis-Kimball with Mona Behan . In: ancienthistory.about.com , [no year] (English, book presentation and brief review, accessed June 16, 2013).
Ed Frauenheim: Ancient Mystery - Jeannine Davis-Kimball investigate the secret of central Asia's mummy people . In: silk-road.com , 1998 (accessed June 16, 2013).
NS Gill: Who Were the Amazons? Were They Man-Haters Who Cut Off One Breast? Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball looks at the question: Who were the Amazons? . In: ancienthistory.about.com , probably 1997 (accessed June 16, 2013).
Worldcat: Davis-Kimball, Jeannine. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Dublin OH USA 2010 (accessed June 16, 2013).

Individual evidence

^ Entry: Davis-Kimball, Jeannine 1929-. ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: highbeam.com , 2005 (accessed June 16, 2013). @1@ 2

↑ Spiegel editorial office: Archeology: Stories from the horse . In: spiegel.de , DER SPIEGEL 9/1997, Hamburg February 24, 1997 (accessed on June 16, 2013), quote: "In southern Russia, women graves filled with weapons were discovered - necropolises of the legendary Amazons?"

↑ Akşam online: Amazonlar Samsun'da değil Kazakistan'da yaşadı. (The Amazons did not live in Samsun , but in Kazakhstan ) In: aksam.com.tr , Akşam, January 13, 2013 (Turkish, accessed on June 16, 2013), Info :: A report by the Akşam newspaper on Davis kimballs Amazon research.

↑ J. Davis-Kimball: Excavations Pokrovka, Russia, 1995. In: csen.org , The Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads (CSEN), Berkeley California USA (English, accessed on June 16, 2013), quotation: “ The Kazakh / American Research Project, Inc., directed by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archeology, lead by Leonid T. Yablonsky, completed its fourth successful year of excavations at Pokrovka, Russia. "

↑ Rasa von Werder: The Woman Who Found The Living Amazons: Interview of Jeannine Davis-Kimball. In: womanthouartgod.com , 2006 (accessed June 16, 2013).

personal data
SURNAME	Davis-Kimball, Jeannine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Diggs , Idaho
DATE OF DEATH	3rd April 2017
Place of death	Ventura , California

[1] Entry: Davis-Kimball, Jeannine 1929-. ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: highbeam.com , 2005 (accessed June 16, 2013). @1@ 2

[2] Spiegel editorial office: Archeology: Stories from the horse . In: spiegel.de , DER SPIEGEL 9/1997, Hamburg February 24, 1997 (accessed on June 16, 2013), quote: "In southern Russia, women graves filled with weapons were discovered - necropolises of the legendary Amazons?"

[3] Akşam online: Amazonlar Samsun'da değil Kazakistan'da yaşadı. (The Amazons did not live in Samsun , but in Kazakhstan ) In: aksam.com.tr , Akşam, January 13, 2013 (Turkish, accessed on June 16, 2013), Info :: A report by the Akşam newspaper on Davis kimballs Amazon research.

[4] J. Davis-Kimball: Excavations Pokrovka, Russia, 1995. In: csen.org , The Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads (CSEN), Berkeley California USA (English, accessed on June 16, 2013), quotation: “ The Kazakh / American Research Project, Inc., directed by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archeology, lead by Leonid T. Yablonsky, completed its fourth successful year of excavations at Pokrovka, Russia. "

[5] Rasa von Werder: The Woman Who Found The Living Amazons: Interview of Jeannine Davis-Kimball. In: womanthouartgod.com , 2006 (accessed June 16, 2013).