Yamna culture - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Yamna Culture: Encyclopedia - Yamna Culture
The Yamna (from Russian яма "pit") or Pit Grave or Ochre Grave culture is a late copper age/early bronze age culture of the Bug/Dniest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurgan: Encyclopedia - Kurgan
Kurgan (кургáн) is the Russian word (of Turkic origin) for tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurgan Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurgan Hypothesis - Overview
The "Kurgan hypothesis" of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) origins assumes gradual expansion of the "Kurgan culture" until it encompasses the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurgan Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurgan Hypothesis - Overview
The "Kurgan hypothesis" of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) origins assumes gradual expansion of the "Kurgan culture" until it encompasses the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kurgan: Encyclopedia Ii - Kurgan - Archaeology
Kurgan type barrows were characteristic of Bronze Age nomadic peoples of the steppes, from the Altai to the Caucasus and Romania. Sometim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot Burial: Encyclopedia - Chariot Burial
Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his chariot, usually including his horses and other possessions....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture
The Corded Ware culture, Battle Axe culture or Single Grave culture is an enormous European archaeological horizon that begins in the lat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia - Chariot
Chariot was the name of a WW2 naval weapon, the British manned torpedo. A chariot is a two-wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle. In Latin biga is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - Classification
The various subgroups of the Indo-European family include (in historical order of their first attestation): Anatolian languages — earl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Chalcolithic
Also known as Copper Age, European Chalcolithic is a time of changes and confusion. The most relevant fact is the infiltration and invasi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Funnelbeaker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Funnelbeaker Culture - Religion And Graves
The houses were centered around a monumental grave, a symbol of social cohesion. Burial practices were varied, depending on region and ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marija Gimbutas: Encyclopedia Ii - Marija Gimbutas - Life
Marija Gimbutas arrived in the United States as a refugee from Lithuania in 1949 after earning a PhD in archaeology in 1946 at Tübingen ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Ancient Near East
Chariot - Egyptian. The chariot, together with the horse itself, was introduced to Egypt during the reign of the Hyksos dynasty in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Subgroups
The core group spread its pottery nearly everywhere. Corded Ware culture - Corded Ware culture. The prototypal Corded Ware culture, Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - Classification
The various subgroups of the Indo-European family include (in historical order of their first attestation): Anatolian languages — earl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Central And Western Europe
The only Etruscan chariot found intact dates to ca. 530 BC. It is decorated with bronze plates reminiscent of the Gundestrup cauldron. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Russian Tachanka
It might be said that the chariot was briefly revived during the Russian civil war of 1918–1920, when the "tachanka", a cart or wagon w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Iron Age
Though the use of iron was known to the Aegean peoples about 1100 BCE, it didn't reach Central Europe before 800 BCE, giving way to the H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Graves
Inhumation was characteristically done one metre deep, without any marks, in a flexed position; males lay on their right side, females on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Northern Europe
The Trundholm sun chariot is dated to ca. 1400 BC (see Nordic Bronze Age). The horse drawing the solar disk runs on four wheels, and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Bronze Age
Though the use of bronze started much earlier in the Aegean area, it is not before 1800 BCE that it reaches southern Spain, while Central...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Extent
It encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine River on the west, to the Volga River in the east, including most of mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Language
The Corded Ware culture was long pointed to as the cultural horizon best fitting the description for the Urheimat (original homeland) of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Origins And Development
Considering its immense, continental expanse, it clearly represents a fusion of earlier archaeological cultures of varying degrees of rel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - Sound Changes
As the Indo-European languages broke up, the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) sound system diverged as well. The difference between the palatali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - China
The earliest chariot burial site in China, discovered in 1933 at Hougang, Anyang of central China's Henan Province, dates to the rule of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Northern Europe
The Trundholm sun chariot is dated to ca. 1400 BC (see Nordic Bronze Age). The horse drawing the solar disk runs on four wheels, and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Indo-iranians
The earliest chariots known are from the chariot burials of the Andronovo (Timber-Grave) sites of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture in moder...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Language
The Corded Ware culture was long pointed to as the cultural horizon best fitting the description for the Urheimat (original homeland) of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Origins And Development
Considering its immense, continental expanse, it clearly represents a fusion of earlier archaeological cultures of varying degrees of rel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Central And Western Europe
The only Etruscan chariot found intact dates to ca. 530 BC. It is decorated with bronze plates reminiscent of the Gundestrup cauldron. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariot: Encyclopedia Ii - Chariot - Classical Antiquity
Chariot - Greece. The classical Greeks had a (still not very effective) cavalry, and the rocky terrain of the Greek mainland was unsuit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marija Gimbutas: Encyclopedia Ii - Marija Gimbutas - Assessment
Joseph Campbell and Ashley Montagu each compared Marija Gimbutas' output to the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyph...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic: Europe was populated by species of Homo since c. 900,000 years ago (Homo erectus), associated with the pebble-tools te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marija Gimbutas: Encyclopedia Ii - Marija Gimbutas - Work
Gimbutas earned a reputation as a world-class specialist on the Indo-European Bronze Age as well as on Lithuanian folk art and the prehis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indo-european Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Indo-european Languages - History
See also: Proto-Indo-European, Historical linguistics, Glottochronology. The possibility of common origin for some of these languages was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Funnelbeaker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Funnelbeaker Culture - Objects
The culture is named for its characteristic ceramics, beakers and amphorae with funnel-shaped tops, which were probably used for drinking...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Neolithic
Main article:Neolithic Europe. European Neolithic comes from the Near East, via Asia Minor, the Mediterranean waterway and also through t...   » Read the article