Revisiting the Origin Time of the Sarmatians in the Crimean Steppe
Journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik
Year: 2022

The study deals with the question of determining time of the first appearance of the Sarmatians in the Crimean Steppe. Discrepancy between scientific interpretations of ancient written sources and dating by archaeological researches can be observed: while the former admit that the Sarmatians inhabited the Crimean peninsula in 3rd – 2nd centuries BC, the later assume the origin time to be the late 1st century BC. The monument considered in the article is burial 80 of kurgan Ungut-1 which partiall