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Симоненко А. В. Сарматские всадники Северного Причерноморья.

Симоненко А. В. Сарматские всадники Северного Причерноморья. – Спб.: 2009 г. – 328 с.
К.: Издатель Олег Филюк, 2015 г. – 466 с.

Language of edition: russian

The warfare, weapons and horse harness from Sarmatian graves of the 2nd c. BC – 4th c. AD from North Pontic region (modern Ukraine and Moldova) are explored inthe book. The analyses covered a greater part of weapons (swords and daggers, bowdetailes, spear- and arrow-heads, helmets, armour, shields) and cavalry equipment(bits, check-pieces, roundels and other harness decoration, saddles etc.) many ofwhich are published for the first time.

In the book the typology and chronology ofmaterial are proposed, the place of Sarmatian militaria in the system of Eurasian no-madic antiquities is specified. Basing on the review of the current scientific theoriesand analyzing the new material author proposes the new solutions of such key ques-tions of Sarmatian studies as the similarity and difference of Sarmatian and Scythianwarfare, the “problem of cataphractarii”, the structure and organization of Sarmatianarmy, the chronology of the development of Sarmatian military art, its regional andchronological peculiarities etc.

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Author: Symonenko Oleksandr Volodymyrovych (1952 –)

Subject: Sarmatians