claim · claim_saka_scythian_labels_not_back_projected
Saka and Scythian labels should not be projected backward onto second-millennium BCE Central Asian assemblages without independent contemporary evidence.
Saka and Scythian labels should not be projected backward onto second-millennium BCE Central Asian assemblages without independent contemporary evidence.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · contextualizes
The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron Ages — Ludmila Koryakova, Andrej Epimakhov (2007)Provides the chronological distinction among archaeological horizons.
Locator: Transition from Bronze to Iron Age classifications - supports · critiques interpretation
An Imagined Past? Nomadic Narratives in Central Asian Archaeology — Robert N. Spengler III, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Tekla Schmaus, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Bryan K. Miller, Shevan Wilkin, William T. T. Taylor, Yuqi Li, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin (2021)Supports caution about nationalist and ethnogenetic back-projection.
Locator: Modern narratives of ancient steppe identity
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Referenced records
- Begazy-Dandybai tradition · entity
- Chust culture · entity
- Yaz I / Early Iron Age 1 horizon · entity
- Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex · entity