In: The Sarmatians and the Others: Nomadic and Sedentary Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe in the First Half of the 1st Millennium AD. Ed. Ed. Lavinia Grumeza, Victor Cojocaru, Cristina I. Tica. Pontica et Mediterranea Vol. XI. Mega, Cluj‑Napoca 219–232., 2024
The Sarmatians who arrived in the Carpathian Basin made a relatively quick transition from nomads... more The Sarmatians who arrived in the Carpathian Basin made a relatively quick transition from nomads to farmers, raising livestock and cultivating crops, as evidenced by the large number of settlements. Crop cultivation is represented by the currently limited number of archaeobotanical samples (different types of cereals) and agricultural implements (sickles, plough irons, spades, etc.). The authors suggest that the most important export product of the Sarmatians was wheat, which was probably transported to Pannonia and, most probably, to Dacia as well. There are two lines of evidence to support this. First, there is the large number of storage pits that characterise the Sarmatian settlements. Second, the large number of troops stationed in the neighbouring Roman provinces, where agricultural conditions were less favourable than in the Great Hungarian Plain, was another reason for this export.
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