scythian

See the article on the Scythian language [0] in the Encyclopedia Iranica, the standard reference work for this field.

What was the Scythian bowmaker doing as he selected glue to attache sinew to his radical new bow design?

Alexander the Great reputedly defeated Scythian horse archers, but he left no records as to how this is was achieved.

Scant hope for this ever improving but maybe some decade drivers won't be a scythian nightmare.

Practically every barbarian horde descending from euro-asian steppe into europe was called scythian as if it was one and the same.

I don't think that would be a Scythian area, that's more Pontic steppe, west and north from there.

As far as historical examples just study Inuit, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, or Scythian practices on the matter.

So what do you make of the scythian connections to gaelic/gaulic cultures?

Would a Scythian distinguish between a Spartan and an Athenian?

Or rather Greeks came from one of the Scythian tribes?

One of the cornerstones of Scythian and German civilization was this idea of dual rule, where you have one rule for war and one rule for peace.

The Scythian king Ateas, from what is now Russia, fought in his dotage and fell in battle with Philip of Macedon in 00339 BCE, and his empire collapsed.

Speakers of other mother languages would have reasonable trouble getting the pronounciation right, so a Scythian, Tracian, Dalmation or otherwise "Celtic" Slave would appear hard to comprehend.

Wikipedia has some clues at [0]: "Traditionally animal proteins like casein from milk or collagen from animal hides and bones were boiled down to make early glues." and [1]: "A Scythian wood-laminate bow was...

In short, I think overfocusing on the younger "Scythian hypothesis" is too specific and prone to error, but there are lots of great insights to be had in following the genetic maps that have been exploding the knowledge set of proto-indo-european archaeology since about 2010.

*Edit* Further down on the same page[1], the author jumps from the observation that there are both Scythian and Toltek effigies that are shown holding a cup (chalice) in front of their bellies to the claim that this proves the existence of, quote, "a common culture that emerged as a result of the XV century conquest of the Americas by Russia (or the Horde) and the Ottoman (Ataman) empire".

What is unclear are dialectal divisions within Scythian, not the general affiliation of the language.

You’re probably thinking of the Scythian-Greek syncretism that occurred in Greek Crimean colonies during a the Hellenistic (post Alexander) and early Roman periods.

Scythian archers were paid to guard the walls of Athens, so there was a clear understanding in doing business with barbarians (which is their word).