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Document Details : Title: The Foothills of the North-Western Caucasus in the 8th-4th Centuries BC Author(s): TEREKHOVA, N.N. , DMITRIEV, A.V. , MALYSHEV, A.A. , RAVICH, I.G. , ROZANOVA, L.S. Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 5 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2006 Pages: 44-79 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.5.1.3291740 Abstract : The results of complex research on the available material about the inhabitants of the foothills of the north-western Caucasus in the 8th-4th centuries BC are presented. The social-economic and cultural development of local peoples, Toretians and Kerketians, was to a considerable degree determined by geographical conditions of the study area. Although those peoples led a rather isolated life, they underwent influences from different cultural-ethnic groups: Scythian-Maeotian (the Cis-Kuban region), to a smaller extent Maeotia-Colchian (Ciscaucasia and the south-east of the Black Sea region), and the steadily intensifying Greek influence connected with the gradual submission of this territory to the Bosporan kingdom. |
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