Plenty of bright not so bright and manifestly dumb minds worked to create an Indo European or Iranian paradigms for the Scythians Cimmerians and Sarmats but ignoring the contemporary witnesses and attempting to create their paradigm from scratch with a limited knowledge at the time of creation continually brings the atempts in conflict with the old and new facts of the scientific knowledge Anyone interested enough in the subject would immediately note that the propaganda articles and are completely devoid of archeological ethnological and biological genetical content A good example of baseless speculations which unlike the hard data can be all spun and twisted to suit the objective is the Chapter 2 in Yatsenko 2001 that pretends to discuss the Iranian tamgas but instead discourses on the Turkic traditions adopted in the Turco Semitic Dravidian Persian etc state with occasional Persians at the helm The Semitic Ahaemenids the Turkic Parthians are all lumped into an Iranian label making the discourses on the generalized ethnic applications of the tamgas totally incoherent