Introduction: The nature of nomads, cultural variation, and gender roles past and present / Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson -- Reconsidering warfare, status, and gender in the Eurasian Steppe Iron Age / Bryan Hanks -- Arma feminamque cano : warrior-women in the Indo-European world / Karlene Jones-Bley -- Tillya Tepe : aspects of gender and cultural identity / Karen S. Rubinson -- Women's attire and possible sacred role in 4th millennium northern Kazakhstan / Sandra Olsen and Deborah G. Harding -- He who eats the horse, she who rides it? symbols of gender identity on the eastern edges of the Eurasian Steppe / Gideon Shelach -- Horses and gender in Korea : the legacy of the Steppe on the edge of Asia / Sarah Milledge Nelson -- Women and children in the Sargat culture / Natalia Berseneva -- Sorting out men and women in the Karasuk culture / Sophie Legrand -- The gender of luxury and power among the Xiongnu in eastern Eurasia / Katheryn M. Linduff