The Reinterpretation of the Sarmatian Finds From the Romanian Plain (I)1

Vitalie Bârca, Notes on the origin and dating of the bone pyxides from the Sarmatian environment between the Don and the Prut

“…Even more, those from the area west of the Don are mainly part of the grave group which belonged to the new wave of Sarmarians arriving to the north-Pontic area starting with mid 1st c. AD from regions east of the Don (Bârcă and Symonenko 2009, 178;Simonenko 2008, 30;Simonenko 2011, 111). The graves in this group contain a series of eastern elements and features (for elements specific to the new wave of Sarmatians arriving from the east in the north-Pontic area see Simonenko 2000, 133-144;Bârcă and Symonenko 2009, 99-203;Bârcă 2015, with complete bibliography), also noticeable in the case of graves with pyxides.…”