The Pazyryk culture, dating from about the sixth to third centuries BC, is a subgroup of the Scytho-Siberian culture, and its royal kurgans found in the Altai have provided a rich source of artefacts from our time period preserved in permafrost, including rare textile and leather goods.
I recently came across a post by Sean Manning at Book and Sword on small Pazyryk-style shields, including several I'd never seen before. Some of them are made from the familiar stick-and-hide construction, but one is a solid wood shield chiseled to resemble the others at first glance. There's also good shots of the flat leather thong that apparently functioned as a grip.
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