Editing Scythians (section)

===Metalworking===
{{Main|Scythian metallurgy}}
The populations of Scythia practised both metal casting and blacksmithing, with the same craftsmen usually both casting copper and bronze and forging iron.{{sfn|Parzinger|2004|p=84}}{{sfn|Sulimirski|1985|p=156}} The ores from which copper and tin were smelted were likely mined in the region of the [[Donets Ridge]], and metal might also have been imported from the Ural Mountains and the Caucasus. Iron was meanwhile smelted out of [[bog iron]] ores obtained from the swampy regions on the lower Dnipro.{{sfn|Parzinger|2004|p=84}} The Scythians had practised goldsmithing from before their migration out of Central Asia.{{sfn|Armbruster|2009|p=187-188}} This tradition of goldsmithing continued until the times of the Pontic Scythian kingdom.{{sfn|Harmatta|1996|p=182}} 

The metallurgical workshops which produced the weapons and horse harnesses of the Scythians during the Early Scythian period were located in the forest steppe.{{sfn|Melyukova|1995|p=34-35}} By the Middle Scythian period, its principal centre was at a site corresponding to present-day [[Kamianka-Dniprovska|Kamianka]], where the whole process of manufacturing [[bog iron]] was carried out.{{sfn|Sulimirski|1985|p=157}}{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=131}} Other metals, such as copper, lead, and zinc were also smelted at Kamianka, while gold- and silversmiths also worked there.{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=131}} This large-scale industrial operation consumed large amounts of timber which was obtained from the river valleys of Scythia, and metalworking might have developed at Kamianka because timber was available nearby.{{sfn|Cunliffe|2019|p=131}}