Is the debate about origin of the scythians, scythian culture and the scythian animal style dying out?

The autochthonous version of the Scythians origin based on the BronzeAge cultures of the Eurasian steppes prevailed in Soviet archaeology and later inRussian archaeology for more than 70 years. A version on the central Asian origin ofthe Scythians developed in parallel. üver the past 45 years the latter version has beenreinforced substantially by new data on absolute chronology and paleogenetics. Againstthis background the initial debate has been dying out, with new and equally controversialissues related to a new paradigm of the Scythian origin coming to the foreground.