Beads and decoration elements made of amber in items of jewelry from the burials of the nomads of Asian Sarmatia in the context of trade in exotic materials in Eurasia

If the distribution of amber in Europe has been studied quite fully, then the study of the distribution of amber in Eurasia is replete with white spots. This also applies to amber jewelry among the nomads. The focus of the present article is amber jewelry among the nomads of Asian Sarmatia in the context of its distribution in Eurasia in the Early Iron Age. In this regard, the distribution of amber beads in Central Europe, Italy, the Balkans, and Scythia in the 7th - 4th centuries BCE, in the necropoleis of the ancient cities of the North Pontic region of the 6th - 4th centuries BCE, Colchis - of the 5th - 4th centuries BCE, in the Near East, Central Asia, in Siberia and Mongolia is considered.No later than the 4th century BCE items made of amber, mainly originating from the territory of Ukraine and the Baltics, rare in this period in the North Pontic area and unknown in Scythia, appear in the Sarmatian burials of the Southern Urals, where they are found more often and in larger numbers in the complexes of the 3rd and 3rd - 2nd centuries BCE...