Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The Scythians are frequently presented, in popular and academic thought alike, as highly mobile warrior nomads who posed a great economic risk to growing Mediterranean empires from the Iron Age into the Classical period.
Alicia R Ventresca Miller +11 more
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The classification of plaques during the pre-scythian era of the burial ground Zayukovo-3
Кавказология, 2022 This article presents the classification of one of the most common categories of burial equipment of the North Caucasus population during the pre-Scythian time: sewn plaques. These ornaments made of bronze and antimony were found at the Zayukovo-3 burial
Anna A. Kadieva, Sergey V. Demidenko
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Cult Buildings on the Middle-Don Settlements of the Scythian Era
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020 Introduction. As a result of many years of excavations on settlements of the Skiphian era in the basin of the Middle Don the area of about 50 thousand square meters has been opened. However, buildings of the cult purpose are still not known.
Yuriy D. Razuvaev
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Paleo-proteomic analysis of Iron Age dental calculus provides direct evidence of Scythian reliance on ruminant dairy. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe Scythians, often described as mounted horse-back warriors of the Iron Age steppe with lavish burial goods, have attracted increasing scientific interest over the past years. Recent genetic and multi-isotopic studies have uncovered that the 'Scythians'
Jaruschka Pecnik +12 more
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Evidence of War on the Settlements of a Scythian Era in the Middle Don Region
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношенияIntroduction. Two groups of people, differing in social status and material culture, occupied the middle part of the Don basin, representing the eastern edge of the Forest-Steppe Scythia, in the 6th – 3rd centuries BC.
Yuriy Razuvaev
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Węgrzy jako pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Ślady późnoantycznej i wczesnośredniowiecznej uczoności w dziele Tomasza archidiakona Splitu. Część 2. Postrzeganie Massagetów. 1) Kontekst „scytyjski” [PDF]
Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2021 Hungarians as pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Sources of the late antic and early medieval era scholarship in the work of Thomas of Split. Part 2. The Perception of the Massageteans.
Lesław Spychała
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GROUP BURIAL IN AN ABANDONED WELL ON THE SCYTHIAN-ERA HILLFORT NEAR THE CITY OF ZADONSK [PDF]
Ural Historical Journal, 2021 During the excavations of the hillfort located on the river Don near the village of Verkhneye Kazachye (Lipetsk region) the burial of four people, dating back to the 4th–3th centuries BC, was discovered in a pit left over from an abandoned well of the beginning of the Scythian era. It was done simultaneously, although it included heterogeneous remains.
Yuriy D. Razuvaev, Irina K. Reshetova
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Following the Research. Part I
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023 This article is the first part of a critical review of the works from Vol. 18, no. 2 of the Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin, dedicated to the Scythian-Sarmatian period and the coverage of the categories of material culture of this era.
Irina Zasetskaya
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Features of the Cult of Ancestors in the Northern Black Sea region of the late Classical time (based on the materials of the settlement “Belinskoye”) [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 The main purpose of the study is to determine the religious essence of the ritual actions performed at the settlement Belinskoye, located on the western borders of the Bosporan Kingdom.
Yartsev, S.V. +2 more
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RESULTS OF THE EXPLORATION OF A SMALL WATCH FORTRESS OF THE SCYTHIAN ERA
History: facts and symbols, 2021 The article presents the results of the first studies of the defensive line of the hillfort located on the cape of the right bank of the river Don near the village 1st Storozhevoe in the Voronezh region. On a plot of 124 sq. m, a rampart, a moat and the adjacent territory were researched.
Yu. D. Razuvaev +2 more
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