Terra, acqua, oro: interazioni economiche e culturali tra nomadi e sedentari nel bacino del Kuban tra VII e V sec. a.C.
Journal: Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Year: 2025

Starting in the 7th century BCE, north-western Caucasia - centred on the basin of the Kuban River - witnessed the nearly simultaneous arrival of two distinct migratory movements. The first consisted of Greek colonists, who established a series of important coastal settlements; the second of nomadic Scythian groups, who, returning from their Mesopotamian campaigns, occupied the hinterland along the middle and upper reaches of the Kuban. Both came into contact with the native sedentary population,