Editing Cimmerians (section)

====Arrival of the Scythians====
A second wave of migration of Iranic nomads corresponded with the arrival of the early [[Scythians]] from Central Asia into the Caucasian Steppe,{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b|p=103}}{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=112-113}} which started in the 9th century BC,{{sfn|Batty|2007|p=205}} when a significant movement of the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe started after the early Scythians were expelled out of Central Asia by either the [[Massagetae]], who were a powerful nomadic Iranic tribe from Central Asia closely related to the Scythians,{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=81-82}}{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b|p=109}}{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=30}} or by another Central Asian people called the [[Issedones]],{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=81}}{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a|p=76}} thus forcing the early Scythians to the west, across the Araxes river and into the Caspian and Ciscaucasian Steppes.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b|p=108-109}}

Like the nomads of the Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex, the Scythians originated in Central Asia{{sfn|Melyukova|1990|p=98-99}}{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b|p=108}} in the steppes corresponding to either present-day eastern Kazakhstan or the Altai-Sayan region, which is attested by the continuity of Scythian burial rites and weaponry types with the [[Karasuk culture]], as well as by the origin of the typically Scythian Animal Style art in the Mongolo-Siberian region.{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=112}}

Therefore, the Scythians and the nomads of the Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex were closely related populations who shared a common origin, culture, and language,{{sfn|Melyukova|1990|p=98}} and the earliest Scythians were therefore part of a common Aržan-Chernogorovka cultural layer originating from Central Asia, with the early Scythian culture being materially indistinguishable from the Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex.{{sfn|Jacobson|1995|p=36}}

This western migration of the early Scythians lasted through the middle 8th century BC,{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=111}} and archaeologically corresponded to the movement of a population originating from [[Tuva]] in southern [[Siberia]] in the late 9th century BC towards the west, and arriving in the 8th to 7th centuries BC into Europe, especially into Ciscaucasia, which it reached some time between {{c.|750}} and {{c.|700 BC}},{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b|p=103}}{{sfn|Tokhtas’ev|1991}} thus following the same general migration path as the first wave of Central Asian Iranic nomads who had formed the Chernogorovka-Novocherkassk complex.{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=112-113}}