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From their base in the Ciscaucasian Steppe, [90] the Scythians during the 8th to 7th centuries BC conquered the Pontic and Crimean Steppes [141] to the north of the Black Sea [90] up to the Istros river, whose mouth henceforth formed the southwestern boundary of Scythian territory, [142] while the Eastern Carpathian Mountains blocked their ...
This practice of human and horse sacrifices is not known from earlier Nomadic Scythian sites, but was practised in the western Ciscaucasian burials of the Royal Scythians and was introduced into the Pontic Steppe after the latter lost control of the Kuban Steppe and retreated into the north Pontic region.
Within the western sections of the Eurasian Steppe, the Cimmerians lived in the Caspian [29] [38] and Ciscaucasian Steppes, [39] [15] [40] situated on the northern and western shores of the Caspian Sea [41] [42] [29] and along the Araxes river, i.e., the Volga river, [43] which acted as their eastern border separating them from the Scythians ...
The westward migration of the Scythians brought them to the lands of the Cimmerians, [33] after which the Scythians settled between the Araxes river to the east, the Caucasus mountains to the south, and the Maeotian Sea to the west, [23] in the Ciscaucasian Steppe where were located the Scythian kingdom's headquarters. [28]
The arrival of the Scythians and their establishment in this region in the 7th century BC [28] corresponded to a disturbance of the development of Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, [23] which was thus replaced through a continuous process [29] over the course of c. 750 to c. 600 BC by the early Scythian culture in southern Europe, which itself nevertheless still showed links to the ...
From the Caucasian steppe, the tribe of the Royal Scythians expanded to the south, following the coast of the Caspian Sea and arrived in the Ciscaucasian steppes, from where they settled in eastern Transcaucasia until the early 6th century BC.
The Eastern Scythians genetically formed from mixture between Steppe_MLBA sources (which could be associated with different cultures such as Sintashta, Srubnaya, and Andronovo) and a specific East Eurasian source that was already present during the LBA in the neighboring northern Mongolia region. [50]
From the Caucasian steppe, the tribe of the Royal Scythians expanded to the south, following the coast of the Caspian Sea and arrived in the Ciscaucasian steppes, from where they settled in eastern Transcaucasia until the early 6th century BC.