The teams research waspublishedlast week in PLOS One.
The 45 leather samples (as well as two fur objects) were recovered from 18 Scythian burials.
Many of the Scythian burials were in kurgansancient burial mounds found across eastern Europe.
Leather samples, including human skin, from Scythian sites in Ukraine.Image:M. Daragan
Some of theearliest evidence of horse domesticationcomes from in kurgans in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
Scythians carried technologies, goods, and ideas between the continents.
The fur samples were identified as red fox and animals in the cat and squirrel families.
A silver bowl and golden cone from Scythian burials depicting leather garments.Image:Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, Kyiv
Two of the leather samples were from horse, and twoprobably the reason youre herewere human skin.
New research continues to reshape the modern image of Scythians.
They were much more than fearsome nomadic warriors.
Thosescientists concludedthat only a small subset of people that lived in Scythian times were leading heavily nomadic lifestyles.
Whether any of the rumored clothing sewn from scalps will ever be recovered is another matter.
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