Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Asian
6. Central Asian
7. [Northern Steppe styles and periods]
8. [Northern Steppe early historic styles and periods]

Narrower term/s

• Alani

Anotations

Scope note:

Style and culture of a people originally of Iranian stock, closely related to the Scythians. The Sarmatians migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains between the 6th and 4th century BCE and eventually settled in most of southern European Russia and the eastern Balkans.