Editing Cimmerians (section)

====In the Caspian Steppe====
The original homeland of the Cimmerians before they migrated into West Asia was in the steppe situated to the north of the [[Caspian Sea]] and to the west of the Araxēs (Volga) river until the Cimmerian Bosporus (the Ketch Strait) and some Cimmerians might have nomadised in the [[Kuban steppe]]; the Cimmerians thus originally lived in the Caspian and Caucasian steppes, in the area corresponding to present-day [[Southern Russia]].{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a}}{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=89-109}}{{sfn|Barnett|1982|pages=333-356}}

The region of the Pontic Steppe to the north of the [[Sea of Azov|Lake Maeotis]] was instead inhabited by the [[Agathyrsi]], who were another nomadic Iranic tribe related to the Cimmerians, and the claim in earlier scholarship that the Cimmerians lived in the Pontic Steppe appears to be erroneous and lacks evidence to support it.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000b}}

The later claim by Greek authors that the Cimmerians lived in the Pontic Steppe around the [[Dniester|Tyras river]] was a retroactive invention dating from after the disappearance of the Cimmerians.{{sfn|Olbrycht|2000a}}