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Topic: Maykop culture


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  4th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yamna culture ("Kurgan culture"), succeeding the Sredny Stog culture is the locus of the Proto-Indo-Europeans according to the Kurgan hypothesis
The Maykop culture of the Caucasus, contemporary to the Kurgan culture, is a candidate for the origin of bronze production and thus the Bronze Age.
Nok culture, situated at the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/4th_millennium_BC   (703 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Culture of Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Culture of Africa encompasses and includes all cultures which were ever in the continent of Africa.
Human culture in Africa is as old as the human race, and includes Neolithic (10000 BC) rock engravings, the glacial age petroglyphs (a carving or line drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric people) of early hunter-gatherers in the dry grasslands of North Africa, the Nomes of Egypt (3100 BC), and ancient Egypt.
In most of traditional art and craft of Africa, certain themes significant to African culture recur, including a couple, a woman with a child, a male with a weapon or animal, and an outsider or a stranger.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Culture_of_Africa   (1579 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Bronze Age
The earliest evidence of bronze metalworking dates to the mid 4th millennium Maykop culture in the Caucasus.
The Erlitou culture, Shang Dynasty and Sanxingdui culture of early China used bronze vessels for rituals as well as farming implements and weapons [2].
The Unetice culture is followed by the middle bronze age (1600-1200 BC) Tumulus culture, which is characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/Bronze_Age   (2917 words)

  
 Everything about Prefix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
According to the Kurgan hypothesis, early PIE was spoken in the chalcolithic steppe cultures of the 5th millennium BC between the Black Sea and the Volga.
The Maykop culture shows the earliest evidence of the beginning Bronze Age, and bronze weapons and artefacts are introduced to Yamna territory.
Proto-Greek is spoken in the Balkans, Proto-Indo-Iranian north of the Caspian in the Sintashta-Petrovka culture.
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