SARMATIAN RELIGION. The Sarmatians were Iranian-speaking nomadic tribes that formed in the middle of the first millennium BCE in the southern Urals. In the last centuries before the common era they spread from there in a westward direction—to...

The Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (Old Iranian Sarumatah 'archer'[1]) were a people originally of Iranian stock[2][1]. Mentioned by classical authors, they migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains around 5th century B.C. and eventually...

ABSTRACT- A new fish fauna is described from the late Middle Miocene (Volhynian; early Sarmatian sensu lato) of Tsurevsky, North Caucasus, Russia. Ten taxa belonging to nine families are described, of which two may be new (Micromesistius sp., Bothus sp.), but not formally...

Maria Bogucka. Warsaw: Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1996. 44 illus + 201 pp. $18. ISBN: 83-86301-25-2. This series of closely connected essays by a leading Polish social and cultural historian (she is now also the Editor of Acta Poloniae...