Maykop culture - Wikipedia
WebThe Maykop culture ( Russian: майкоп, [mɐjˈkop], scientific transliteration: Majkop, ), c. 3700 BC – 3000 BC, [1] is a major Bronze Age archaeological culture in the western Caucasus region. It extends along the area from the Taman Peninsula at the Kerch Strait to near the modern border of Dagestan and southwards to the Kura River.
The Maykop: Lost Bronze Age Culture of the Exotic Caucasus …
WebMar 22, 2022 · The Maykop Mound, or Chieftain’s Grave, contained countless ancient riches and spoils from a previously unheard-of Bronze Age civilization. Comparison with similar artefacts from other cultures roughly contemporary with the 4th-3rd-century Maykop culture of the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the ...
WebFeb 4, 2019 · The Maykop culture is well known for its large and rich burial mounds, especially at the eponymous Maykop site, which reflect the rise of a new system of social organization 7, while the Kura...
Bronze Age Mountain Kings | The Maykop Culture
WebJan 29, 2023 · The Maykop (or Maikop) Culture was a Bronze Age people of the Caucasus mountains who traded with the ancient civilization of Uruk Mesopotamia and the Yamnaya steppe herders. When the famous Maykop Chieftain's kurgan was excavated in 1897 it was almost 11m high and more than 100m in diameter.
On the Maykop - Upper Mesopotamia cultural province, distinct from …
WebJun 25, 2018 · The turn of the fourth millennium BC saw the development of various cultural traditions in south-east Anatolia, north-east Syria and north-west Iran; on the northern fringe, these traditions manifested themselves through the Maykop culture.
Maykop - Wikipedia
WebThe city gave its name to the early Bronze Age Maykop culture after the discovery of a royal burial site there in 1897. Following the establishment of a military camp in 1825, the Imperial Russian Army built a military fort at Maykop in 1857. In 1910 oil deposits were discovered in the vicinity of Maykop.
(PDF) The chronology of the Maikop culture in the Northern …
WebThe chronology of the Maikop culture in the Northern Caucasus: changing perspectives. Maria Ivanova-Bieg. 2008, Aramazd. The “chieftain’s grave” in the Kurgan of Maikop epitomizes for over a century the spectacular wealth …
Early contact between late farming and pastoralist societies in ...
WebJul 19, 2023 · The Maykop culture had extremely rich burials with metal weapons indicating ‘high status’ individuals, attesting to social inequality and upheaval during this time 23, as such social elites ...
Ancestry and identity in Bronze Age Catacomb culture burials: A meta ...
WebJun 1, 2021 · Ancient DNA data indicate that members of the Early Bronze Age Maykop culture (3700–3000 BCE) were genetically distinctive from steppe populations dating to the same period, including the Yamnaya (Wang et al., 2019). By contrast, individuals from Catacomb and Yamnaya cultures were genetically similar to individuals from North …
The Site of the Maykop Culture in the Mountains of the …
WebJan 1, 2021 · The Site of the Maykop Culture in the Mountains of the Northwestern Caucasus. January 2021. DOI: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.216. Authors: Sergei M. Ostashinskii. Evgenii A. Cherlenok. To read...
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