An aside on the Scythians:
Hesychius' gloss for the Pontic Sindoi was "Sindoi ethnos Indikon".
The Greek writers actually contrasted the Scythians to the more agricultural Sindoi.
So we have definite evidence for the mobile counterparts of both the Iranian and Indics spreading to the West.
What is interesting is that the Indic and Iranian presence above the black sea mirrors that of the Mitanni/Kassites and Iranians (including Armenians) below the Black Sea: so these groups were effectively performing a pincer movement and that too without any sense of ideological or ethnic unity.
The Northern and southern trajectories westward meet in C Asia/Sindh.
The Maeotae understood in minute detail the geography of the area and they even glossed the Sea of Azov as the Mother of the Dark Sea: so they were in intimate possession of the area.
Iranians have their refugial remnants in Europe in the Hrvat. It is also likely that the Sindoi had their refugial component which merged with the Iranians, as happened with the Mittani to Kurd transition. The forest refugia also probably contains their remnant.
Hesychius' gloss for the Pontic Sindoi was "Sindoi ethnos Indikon".
The Greek writers actually contrasted the Scythians to the more agricultural Sindoi.
So we have definite evidence for the mobile counterparts of both the Iranian and Indics spreading to the West.
What is interesting is that the Indic and Iranian presence above the black sea mirrors that of the Mitanni/Kassites and Iranians (including Armenians) below the Black Sea: so these groups were effectively performing a pincer movement and that too without any sense of ideological or ethnic unity.
The Northern and southern trajectories westward meet in C Asia/Sindh.
The Maeotae understood in minute detail the geography of the area and they even glossed the Sea of Azov as the Mother of the Dark Sea: so they were in intimate possession of the area.
Iranians have their refugial remnants in Europe in the Hrvat. It is also likely that the Sindoi had their refugial component which merged with the Iranians, as happened with the Mittani to Kurd transition. The forest refugia also probably contains their remnant.