With sedentarisation, both fortified and unfortified settlements replaced the older nomadic camps in the basin of the lower Borysthenēs river, which prevented the remaining Scythians from continuing to maintain a steppe economy. Therefore, the number of fortified settlements in the Tauric Chersonese increased with the retreat into this territory and away from the steppe of the Scythian aristocracy, who was then rapidly embracing a Hellenistic lifestyle. By the 1st century BC, these Scythians living in the Tauric Chersonese had fully become sedentary farmers.
with sedentarisation both fortified and unfortified settlements replaced the older nomadic camps in the basin of the lower borysthenēs river which prevented the remaining scythians from continuing to maintain a steppe economy therefore the number of fortified settlements in the tauric chersonese increased with the retreat into this territory and away from the steppe of the scythian aristocracy who was then rapidly embracing a hellenistic lifestyle by the 1st century bc these scythians living in the tauric chersonese had fully become sedentary farmers