К оценке этнополитической ситуации VII–V вв. до н. э. в Нижнем Прикубанье

Abstract

This paper is concerned with analysis of the ethnopolitical situation on the Taman Peninsula and on the Lower Kuban River at the early stage of the occupation of the territory of the Asiatic Bosporos by the Greeks. In the author’s version, the ethnonim ‘Sinds’ is related with one of the groups among the nomads of the Samara-Ural region which about in 530 BC, under the pressure of a new nomadic wave from the east (“Royal Scythians”) moved in the western direction and occupied the free area in the region of the Cimmerian Bosporos. By the beginning of the 5th century BC, the Sinds evidently attained a dominating position among the barbarian tribes on the Lower Kuban River and entered into a military-political alliance with neighbouring Bosporan cities directed against the Scythian expansion. Analysis of burial traditions allows us to associate with the Sinds not only the famous Semibratniye barrows but also a series of adobe tombs with burials of mounted warriors of the 5th century BC.