Barry Cunlife - The Scythians

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6.2 The great arc of the Carpathian Mountains separates the westernmost extension of the steppe, in the
Great Hungarian Plain, from the Pontic steppe.
suggestion that they penetrated further. The next major influx came in the ninth
and eight centuries with the movement of people, probably using the central passes
through the Carpathians, to reach the Great Hungarian Plain, where they settled to
create the Mezöcsát culture (above, pp. 107–9). These were people on the move at
the same time as the historic Kimmerians, with whom they shared a broadly simi-
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