The Archaeological Cultures of the Sarmatians with a Preliminary Note on the Trial-Trenches at Gyoma 133: a Sarmatian Settlement in South-Eastern Hungary (Campaign 1985)

The article represents the first report on the Italian excavations at Gyoma 133 (south-east Hungary) of Sarmatian Age there conducted in 1984 and 1985, on the basis of an agreement of archaeological collaboration between the Institute of Archaeology and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the IsMEO, signed for the first time in 1983. After a short presentation of the geographic landscape and the pyshiographic units of the Carpathian Basin, the author gives an outline of the history of the Iranians Sarmatians, from the Roman time to the early middle ages. The report of the excavations is mainly dealing with the trenches effected alongside a quarry utilized by the brick fabric which had replaced the ancient Skythian kurgan named Csap Halom.