title: Early Scythian fortification
abstract: Scythian settlements of the 7th-5th centuries BC has not yet been discovered, however, the methods of siege and assault on fortified cities were already known to them much earlier, as can be seen from the campaigns in Asia Minor and Transcaucasia. The main archaeological monuments of the fortification of European Scythians IV-III centuries BC Belsk, Kamenskoye and Belozersk settlements on the Dnieper, Nemirovskoye in the basin of the Southern Bug, Nadliman settlement on the Dniester, Elizabethan
journal: Vestnik of North-Ossetian State University