Nomadic era in Ukrainian history

Episode describes the domination of nomadic tribes in Ukrainian lands during Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (II millenium BC - III century AD). It reveales role of Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, as well as Greeks and Romans in the history of Ukraine.

Pictures:

Golden Pectoral: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Pektoral111.JPG

Golden Crest: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Scythian_comb.jpg

Videos:

Scythians and Sarmatians of ancient Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkeWai9hzog

Texts:

Introducing the Scythians: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/introducing-the-scythians/

Maps:

Location of Royal Scythian Mounds: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Scythian_capital_and_royal_kurgans.png

Articles about genetics of nomads:

Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30712-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982219307122%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Ancient genomes suggest the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe as the source of western Iron Age nomads

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223350/

Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337992/

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918750/

Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/016477v1

Diverse origin of mitochondrial lineages in Iron Age Black Sea Scythians

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339713/