What is it about?
There is a tendency in academic literature, to explain nearly every change in material culture of the North Pontic region in antiquity by the constant appearance of new waves of nomads from the East ("Sarmatians"). The author suggests that this explanation model is deeply rooted in the history of Russian Empire.
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Why is it important?
It is important, to be aware of this paradigm reading academic literature and doing own research on the cultural change in the North Pontic region.
Perspectives
For me it took more than 15 years to understand, why academics are so eager, to find "Sarmatian" features in the material culture (particularly in burial rite) of Greek and "Barbarian" cultures of the North Pontic region. I hope, this knowledge will help to release our mind from paradigms and to create a new non-contradictory concept of cultural procecces in the North Pontic region.
Valentina Mordvintseva
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This page is a summary of: The Aetiological Myth of the Russian Empire and the Study in Russia of Cultural Changes in the North Pontic Region from the 3rd Century bc to the 3rd Century ad (Prior to the 1920s), Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, December 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15700577-12341318.
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