title: Chapter 3: Territorial and Chronological Scope of Polovtsians Stelae
abstract: The first attempts to date and determine the boundaries of the diffusion of anthropomorphic stelae took place in the mid-19 th century.Previously, nobody paid particular attention to combining those monumental sculptures found in situ.It has been generally determined that they were found in the range of steppes from the Ural Mountains to the Danube River.In the mid-19th century A.I. Piskariev was the first researcher to document the status of 645 registered anthropomorphic stelae.Although his st