The Sarmatian culture (also known as the Prohorovo culture) was an archaeological culture of the Eurasian steppes in the IV-II centuries BC, which is characterized by a complexity of mounds in the Prohorovski District Orenburg region, excavated S.I. Rudenko ...
M.I.Rostovtsev - Prohorovo culture - mounds dated IV-III centuries, BC, and linked with the eastern neighbors of the Scythians - Sarmatians (Sauromates-Sarmatian community). In 1927-1929, B.N. Grakov combined archaeological monuments of the Lower Volga and Southern Ural, similar Prohorovka, in Prohorovski (Sauromates Sarmatian) and dated her stage IV-II centuries BC.
Origin of the Sarmatian culture
There are two theories about the origin of the Sarmatian culture:
- The Sarmatian culture was fully formed by the end of the fourth century BC, based on the combination of local Sauromatian culture of Southern Ural and foreign elements brought by tribes advancing from the forest-steppe Zauralye (Itkul culture, Gorohovo culture), Kazakhstan and possibly the Aral Sea region. Sometime between the fourth and third century BC, there was a mass of nonmigrantion the nomads of the Southern Ural to the west in the Lower Volga and a minor one to the north, south, and east. In the Lower Volga, Eastern nomads either partly assimilated local Sauromatian tribes, or pushed them into the Azov Sea and the Western Caucasus, where they subsequently formed the basis of the sirakskogo nomadic association. A symbiosis of the Southern-Ural Prohorovo culture with the Lower Volga of Sauromatian culture defines local differences between Prohorovski monuments of Southern Ural and the Volga-Don region within a single culture.
- The Sarmatian culture in the Southern Ural evolved from the early Prohorovo culture. The culture of the Lower Volga Sauromates developed separately at the same time as an independent community.
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