94 In Europe and the steppe the only specimens of this type are Nos. 245–249 in Hüttel
- At p. 161 Hüttel says that for the earliest of these, No. 245 (from western
Switzerland), on the basis of stylistic similarities “erscheint eine Datierung in die
Späturnenfelderzeit am wahrscheinlichsten.”
95 Hüttel 1981, p. 124: “Bronzeknebel und bronzene Mundstücke sind im ‘barbarischen’
Europa erstmals in jungbronzezeitlichem Fundzusammenhang bezeugt.” Nor had a metal
bit from before 1000 BCbeen found on the steppe in the 25 years after Hüttel compiled
his catalog. See Epimachov and Korjakova 2004, p. 224: “Metallknebel, ebenso wie
Metallmundstücke, in den eurasischen Steppen für die Bronzezeit bislang nicht belegt
sind.”
96 Dietz 1998.
97 Drews 2004, p. 83 and p. 177, nn. 69 and 70.
98 On the debate about the time when the steppe population became fully nomadic see
Drews 2004, pp. 73–74. Bokovenko 2000, p. 304, observed that full nomadism began
early in the 1st millennium BC, thanks mostly to “significant progress in horsebreeding
and the development of a more reliable type of bronze bridle.”
99 Hacker 2012, pp. 184–185.
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