They had quite a fierce reputation to the ancient Greeks. There's also some evidence that the Scythians wore their pointy hats more when conducting trade than in their own lands, because they knew they were seen as the pointy hat people.
Tall, distinctive headwear seems to be quite common among nomadic peoples throughout history.
All I know is that nomadic peoples tend to have very nice clothes, and that when I tried looking them up there was hats, hats, hats, hats. But I didn't notice any scholarly sources saying "yeah steppe nomads love hats" or anything.
That's quite an outfit. When they went into battle - did their enemies laugh at them?
They had quite a fierce reputation to the ancient Greeks. There's also some evidence that the Scythians wore their pointy hats more when conducting trade than in their own lands, because they knew they were seen as the pointy hat people.
Tall, distinctive headwear seems to be quite common among nomadic peoples throughout history.
I had no idea.
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That would be a cool megathread topic :quagsire-pog:
Do it!
All I know is that nomadic peoples tend to have very nice clothes, and that when I tried looking them up there was hats, hats, hats, hats. But I didn't notice any scholarly sources saying "yeah steppe nomads love hats" or anything.