#pontic steppe

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Kazakh Steppe

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Khazars: these semi-nomads created the most powerful polity of its time to emerge from the break-up of the Western Gokturk khaganate, one which can be referred to as Khazaria.

Kingdoms of Eastern Europe - Khazars

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A powerful group of ancient trans shamans use to live and work in the Pontic Steppe!

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Scythian people weren't just nomadic warriors, but sometimes settled down

Scythian people of ancient Ukraine led more complex lives than commonly assumed, according to a study published March 10, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Alicia R. Ventresca Miller of the University of Michigan and colleagues.

The Scythian people, who lived across the Pontic steppe around 700-200 BCE, are often portrayed as a culture of nomadic warriors. But this idea is challenged by archaeological evidence that indicates a more complex and varied culture at this place and time. In this study, researchers employed isotopic analyses to investigate patterns of diet and mobility in Scythian populations.

The authors measured isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and strontium in human teeth and bones from several Scythian-era burial sites in Ukraine. Isotopes that reflect diet, indicate that in some places there was a varied diet including numerous domesticated crops, while isotopes that reflect geologic surroundings indicate that most people did not travel long distances during their lifetimes. Read more.

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Pechenegs: it was the Pechenegs who were one of the main enemies of the early Magyars, with whom they fought and won, and with defeat for the Magyar resulting in outwards migration.

Kingdoms of Eastern Europe - Pechenegs / Patzinaks

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Mycenaeans: it is likely that the Mycenaeans descended from the Pontic steppe to enter Greece between 1900-1650 BC, seemingly halting only briefly - if at all - amongst their Indo-European cousins along the Danube.

Kingdoms of the Eastern Mediterranean - Mycenaeans

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O Terceiro Milénio na Estepe Europeia - Livro 

Kaiser, E. (2019): Das dritte Jahrtausend im osteuropäischen Steppenraum. Kulturhistorische Studien zu prähistorischer Subsistenzwirtschaft und Interaktion mit benachbarten Räumen. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 37Edit. Topoi. ISBN: 978-3-9819685-1-4

Sinopse:  Os túmulos são característicos da cultura yamnaya e da cultura funerária das catacumbas do terceiro milênio A.C. na estepe da Europa Oriental e na zona de estepe florestal. Com o início da cultura yamnaya, os enterros são regularmente realizados em túmulos, os montes são frequentemente usados ​​várias vezes e se transformam em monumentos ao longo do tempo. 

+INFO em: O Terceiro Milénio na Estepe Europeia - Livro

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Dr. Atkinson responded that he did indeed run his computer simulation on a grammar-based tree constructed by Don Ringe, an expert on Indo-European at the University of Pennsylvania, but that the resulting origin was, again, Anatolia, not the Pontic steppe.

"Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say"

"It's never the Pontic steppe!!!"