original passage: none of the great confederations of steppe warriors was ethnically homogenous, and the same name was used by different groups for reasons of prestige, or by outsiders to describe their lifestyle or geographic origin. [...] It is therefore futile to speculate about identity or blood relationships between H(s)iung-nu, Hephthalites, and Attila's Huns, for instance. All we can safely say is that the name "Huns", in late antiquity, described prestigious ruling groups of steppe warriors.
original sentence: none of the great confederations of steppe warriors was ethnically homogenous, and the same name was used by different groups for reasons of prestige, or by outsiders to describe their lifestyle or geographic origin.
sentence2: If an archaeologist found evidence of steppe warriors, would they be able to name their ethnicity without further research?
sentence1: all of the great confederations of steppe warriors were ethnically homogenous, so the same name was used by different groups for reasons of prestige, or by outsiders to describe their lifestyle or geographic origin. [...] It is therefore easy to speculate about identity or blood relationships between H(s)iung-nu, Hephthalites, and Attila's Huns, for instance. We can safely say that the name "Huns", in late antiquity, described prestigious ruling groups of steppe warriors.