今人学者对斯基泰人有狭义和广义之说。在古典作家眼中,斯基泰人只是北方游牧民族的代称,其族群范围随记载者主观视野而变化。本文通过梳理史料,发现斯基泰人并非一个生物学意义上的血缘族群,而是一个部落联盟式的政治共同体。 Modern scholars have a narrow and broad sense of the Scythian. In the eyes of the classical writers, the Scythians are only the northern nomads on behalf of their ethnic groups range changes with the subjective vision of the reporters. By combing the historical data, this article finds that the Scythian is not a biologically ethnic group, but a tribal coalition political community.