历史学家说确实有亚马逊人是女战士，但我们还能肯定地说些什么呢？正如希腊地理学家斯特拉博所说，亚马逊人是传说中进行了部分乳房切除术的弓箭手吗？或者它们与公元前5世纪希腊历史学家希罗多德所描述的憎恨人类的亚马逊人的马术乐队相同？

关于亚马逊河流域的专家意见

Kathy Sawyer在1997年7月31日的《盐湖论坛报》上发表的一篇文章《亚马逊人比神话更重要吗？》中指出，亚马逊人的故事主要来自女性恐惧症的想象：

"[T]he notion of such women ... [who] replenished their numbers by mating with men from other tribes, keeping the daughters and killing male infants [...] sprang from [...] an imaginative impulse in the male-dominated Greek society[...]"

然而，亚马逊人是有能力的战士和女性的简单想法是很有可能的。日耳曼部落有女战士，成吉思汗的军队也有蒙古族的随从，因此，即使在最近的研究之前，女战士的存在就已经得到了很好的证明，比如Jeannine Davis Kimball博士，“花了五年时间在俄罗斯博克罗夫卡附近挖掘了150多个公元前5世纪游牧民族的墓穴。”

欧亚游牧民族研究中心（CSEN）挖掘的大草原区域本身并不与希罗多德的斯基台描述相矛盾。在俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦之间的大草原周围地区，挖掘人员发现了支持亚马逊人存在的其他证据，挖掘人员发现了携带武器的女战士的骨架。支持女性战士生活在一个不寻常的社会的理论，挖掘者没有发现埋葬在女性身边的孩子。相反，他们发现了埋在男人旁边的孩子，所以社会上有男人，这与希罗多德的杀人形象相矛盾。珍妮·戴维斯·金博尔博士推测，在这个游牧社会中，女性扮演着统治者、女祭司、战士和家仆的角色。

作为50英尺女性的回报，《沙龙杂志》采访了珍妮·戴维斯·金博尔博士，她说，这些母系女性的主要职业可能不是“跑出去开始砍杀和焚烧”，而是照顾她们的动物。战争是为了保护领土而进行的。当被问及“20世纪末的后女权主义者社会能从你的发现中学到什么吗？”她回答说，女性呆在家里照看孩子的想法并不普遍，而且女性已经控制了很长一段时间。

亚马逊河上的斯特拉博

至于希罗多德描述的女战士和最近挖掘出来的女战士的身份，珍妮·戴维斯·金博尔博士说她们可能不一样。在斯特拉博提到（作为道听途说），亚马逊人是单排扣的想法在许多漂亮的双排扣女子弓箭手面前毫无意义。这幅作品还展示了有两个乳房的亚马逊人。

斯特拉博的“他们说：

"[They], who themselves, likewise, were not unacquainted with the region in question, say that the right breasts of all [Amazons] are seared when they are infants, so that they can easily use their right arm for every needed purpose, and especially that of throwing the javelin[...]"

希罗多德论亚马逊

亚马孙人与西西亚人定居的故事：

"The Amazons (also called oiropatas—man-killers) were taken captive by the Greeks and put on board ship where they murdered the crew. However, the Amazons didn't know how to sail so they floundered until they landed by the cliffs of the Scythians. There they took horses and fought the people. When the Scythians figured out that the warriors they were fighting were women, they resolved to impregnate them and schemed accordingly. The Amazons didn't resist, but encouraged the process which was complicated by a language barrier. In time, the men wished the women to become their wives, but the Amazons, knowing that they couldn't live within the Scythian patriarchy insisted the men leave their native land. The men obliged and a new land was set up. These people became the ​SAUROMATAE who spoke a version of Scythian adapted by the Amazons." —Herodotus Histories