Vekerzug culture arose from the Sigynnae coming under Scythian influence. Various archaeological finds have corroborated Herodotus's reports on the Sigynnae: the people of the Mezőcsát culture and of the Vekerzug culture wore "Median" or "Persian" clothing, that is trousers and sleeved-tunics, and did not use the fibulae and pins required to wear the traditional local clothing then worn throughout the Danube basin in the 6th to 5th centuries BCE; the skeletons of sixteen small Tarpan horses were found in the tumuli graves at Szentes-Vekerzug. These finds moreover attest to a connection between the people of the Vekerzug culture (the Sigynnae) and cultures from Asia. Further evidence of connections between the Vekerzug culture and Asiatic cultures consist objects of Near Eastern origin, and of pintaders, that is clay stamps used to mark tattooed pictures on a person's skin, which, outside of the Vekerzug culture, are attested in Transcaucasia and the North Caucasus, especially in the Kuban culture. Recent commentary In the 19th and 20th centuries, some scholars attempted to connect the Sigynnae with the Romani people due to an alleged similarity of the name with the Hungarian name for the Romani, . These hypotheses have since been discredited and are no longer considered as having any validity. See also Iazyges Scythian cultures References Sources Historical Iranian peoples Ancient tribes in Hungary Scythian tribes Tribes described primarily by Herodotus