📚 noun • entry_id 37016
kurgan
/kʊəˈɡɑːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
kurgán
A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schem…
The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the k…
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