Editing Sarmatians (section)

===Origin===
{{main|Sauromatians}}
[[File:Sword types of the South Urals, Sauromatian to Early Sarmatian 5th-1st centuries BCE.png|thumb|upright=1.75|Evolution of sword types of the South Urals, from Sauromatian (5th-4th centuries BCE) to Early Sarmatian (3rd-1st centuries BCE).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Сергеевич |first1=Савельев Никита |title=Находки мечей и кинжалов скифо-сарматского времени из юго-западных предгорий Южного Урала (к вопросу об освоении территории и особенностях расселения кочевников) |journal=Oriental Studies |date=2018 |volume=4 |pages=24–31 |doi=10.22162/2619-0990-2018-37-3-24-31 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 }}</ref>]]
[[File:Reconstruction of Sarmatian chieftain. Araltobe mount, Kazakhstan, III-II cc. BC. Excavation of Z. Samashev. Heritage of the Great Steppe exhibition, Gdańsk Main Town Hall.jpg|thumb|Reconstruction of early Sarmatian chieftain. [[Araltobe kurgan]], [[Kazakhstan]], III-II c. BCE. Excavation of Z. Samashev.<ref name="astanatimes.com">{{cite journal |last1=Ualikhanova |first1=Aruzhan |title=Archeologists Discover Golden Artifacts in Abai Region's Bozai Burial Ground |journal=The Astana Times |date=22 April 2023 |url=https://astanatimes.com/2023/04/archeologists-discover-golden-artifacts-in-abai-regions-bozai-burial-ground/ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Noyanov |first1=Edyl Noyanuly |last2=Yernazar |first2=Sergazy |title=THE "GOLDEN PEOPLE" OF KAZAKHSTAN |journal=World Science |date=2016 |page=46 |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/the-golden-people-of-kazakhstan.pdf}}</ref>]]

The ethnogenesis of the Sarmatians occurred during the 6th to 4rd centuries BCE, when nomads from [[Central Asia]] migrated into the territory of the [[Sauromatian culture|Sauromatians]] in the southern [[Ural Mountains]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sarmatian |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica | title = Sarmatian|quote=Sarmatian, member of a people originally of Iranian stock who migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains between the 6th and 4th century BC and eventually settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans.|date =13 February 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yablonsky |first1=Leonid Teodorovich |title=New Excavations of the Early Nomadic Burial Ground at Filippovka (Southern Ural Region, Russia) |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |date=2010 |volume=114 |issue=1 |page=141 |doi=10.3764/aja.114.1.129 |jstor=20627646 |s2cid=191399666 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20627646 |issn=0002-9114}}</ref><ref>For the complexity of the interactions of these peoples see, ''e.g.'' {{harvnb|Mordvintseva|2013}} and {{harvnb|Kozlovskaya|2017}}.</ref> These nomads conquered the Sauromatians, resulting in an increased incidence of eastern Asiatic features in the Early Sarmatians, similar to those of the [[Sakas]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes : the State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, and the Archaeological Museum, Ufa |date=2000 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |isbn=978-0-87099-959-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWcjhsRCWG4C&pg=PA39 |page=39 |language=en |quote=In skull shape and facial structure, the Filippovka specimens differ considerably from remains of Scythians and Volga River-area Sarmatians. The Filipovka skulls most closely resemble those of [[Saka]] from [[Kazakhstan]] and the [[Aral Sea]] region, and those of the [[Wusun|Usuns]] from Eastern Kazhakhstan.}}</ref>

The name "Sarmatians" eventually came to be applied to the whole of the new people formed out of these migrations, whose constituent tribes were the [[Aorsi]], [[Roxolani]], [[Alans]], and the [[Iazyges]]. Despite the similarity between the names Sarmatian and Sauromatian, modern authors distinguish between the two, since Sarmatian culture did not directly develop from the Sauromatian culture and the core of the Sarmatian culture was composed of these newly arrived migrants.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000}}{{sfn|Melyukova|1990}} A typical transitional site between these two periods is found in the [[Filippovka kurgans]], which are Late [[Sauromatian]]-Early Sarmatian, and dated to the 5th-4th century BCE.<ref name="Y141">{{cite journal |last1=Yablonsky |first1=Leonid Teodorovich |title=New Excavations of the Early Nomadic Burial Ground at Filippovka (Southern Ural Region, Russia) |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |date=2010 |volume=114 |issue=1 |page=141 |doi=10.3764/aja.114.1.129 |jstor=20627646 |s2cid=191399666 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20627646 |issn=0002-9114 |quote= with artifacts found in other barrows, afford us the opportunity to refine the chronology of each object and of the site as a whole and to date it to the second half of the fifth through the fourth centuries B.C.E. (...) Filippovka cemetery is a transition site between the Sauromation and the Sarmatian epochs.}}</ref>