Kramrisch, Stella. „Central Asian Arts: Nomadic Cultures”. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Приступљено 1. 9. 2018. „The Śaka tribe was pasturing its herds in the Pamirs, central Tien Shan, and in the Amu Darya delta. Their gold belt buckles, jewelry, and harness decorations display sheep, griffins, and other animal designs that are similar in style to those used by the Scythians, a nomadic people living in the Kuban basin of the Caucasus region and the western section of the Eurasian plain during the greater part of the 1st millennium bc.”
Unterländer, Martina (3. 3. 2017). „Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe”. Nature Communications. 8: 14615. Bibcode:2017NatCo...814615U. PMC5337992. PMID28256537. doi:10.1038/ncomms14615. „During the first millennium BCE, nomadic people spread over the Eurasian Steppe from the Altai Mountains over the northern Black Sea area as far as the Carpathian Basin... Greek and Persian historians of the 1st millennium BCE chronicle the existence of the Massagetae and Sauromatians, and later, the Sarmatians and Sacae: cultures possessing artefacts similar to those found in classical Scythian monuments, such as weapons, horse harnesses and a distinctive ‘Animal Style' artistic tradition. Accordingly, these groups are often assigned to the Scythian culture...”
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Unterländer, Martina (3. 3. 2017). „Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe”. Nature Communications. 8: 14615. Bibcode:2017NatCo...814615U. PMC5337992. PMID28256537. doi:10.1038/ncomms14615. „During the first millennium BCE, nomadic people spread over the Eurasian Steppe from the Altai Mountains over the northern Black Sea area as far as the Carpathian Basin... Greek and Persian historians of the 1st millennium BCE chronicle the existence of the Massagetae and Sauromatians, and later, the Sarmatians and Sacae: cultures possessing artefacts similar to those found in classical Scythian monuments, such as weapons, horse harnesses and a distinctive ‘Animal Style' artistic tradition. Accordingly, these groups are often assigned to the Scythian culture...”
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Unterländer, Martina (3. 3. 2017). „Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe”. Nature Communications. 8: 14615. Bibcode:2017NatCo...814615U. PMC5337992. PMID28256537. doi:10.1038/ncomms14615. „During the first millennium BCE, nomadic people spread over the Eurasian Steppe from the Altai Mountains over the northern Black Sea area as far as the Carpathian Basin... Greek and Persian historians of the 1st millennium BCE chronicle the existence of the Massagetae and Sauromatians, and later, the Sarmatians and Sacae: cultures possessing artefacts similar to those found in classical Scythian monuments, such as weapons, horse harnesses and a distinctive ‘Animal Style' artistic tradition. Accordingly, these groups are often assigned to the Scythian culture...”