Scythian Armour

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Also, the dating of these has always been a bit vague - "6th-3rd century B.C."...but recently, carbon dating of some of the rugs has provided a firm date circa 250 B.C

well, on this page of Univ of Washington the author, Daniel Waugh says re Pazyryk : 'on the whole these dates are younger than the original ones proposed by Rudenko, but as Stepanova points out, it is possible that they may be further revised.' via E. V. Stepanova, "Evoliutsiia konskogo snariazheniia i otnositel'naia khronologiia pamiatnikov Pazyrykskoi kul'tury" [Evolution of horse harnesses and relative chronology of the monuments of the Pazyryk culture], Arkheologicheskie vesti (St. Petersburg), No. 13 (2006): p. 104.
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/mu ... zyryk.html

so it appears that nothing is final yet