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Introduction

The early nomads of Eurasia, whom ancient writers called Scythians and Sakas, occupied the great Eurasian Steppe from the beginning of the first millennium BCE. The Scythian culture is well known from the excavations of numerous rich, elite barrows north of the Black Sea, but their theatre of action actually stretched from Hungary to the Great Wall of China. In the steppe zone of Central Asia a number of cultures of the Scythian-Saka type appeared at this period, for example, the Aldy-Bel', Maiemir, Tasmola and Tagar cultures. The Tagar culture, which succeeded ...

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