Scythians, Saka, Sarmats and Cimmerians

To throw Scythians, Saka, Sarmats and Cimmerians in a single pile is dead wrong and is done out of necessity, because so much of material concerns more than one group. The Scythians, of course, are a literary nucleus, better known by ancient historians and the modern scholars alike. However, each one has its own origin, its own history, its own states, and its own fate, and deserves its own historiography.