Definitions

1. Kurgan is the center which borders on Kazakhstan.
2. The Kurgan is a frightening hulk astride a massive black stallion.
3. A Kurgan is a burial mound - similar to the Barrows or "Fairy Mounds" of Brittain.
4. Kurgan is a Russian word because a great many were found in Russia.
5. A Kurgan is a type of burial momument made of huge stones that they made for warriors and important individuals.

Language

1. All sensible theories agree that Indo-Iranian was a Kurgan language, i.e.
2. Kurgan hypothesis, descending from a common ancestor, Celtic languages Language, including Indo-European languages, attested from the mid Albanian language.

Kurgans

1. The pictured kurgan is a Sudovian one, and Sudovians are a Baltic tribe, that is IEs.
2. So, yes, it can be speculated that not all kurgan peoples necessarily spoke IE dialects all the time.
3. By 1400 B.C., Mycenae civilization was under the control of a Kurgan ethnic group known as Achaeans.

Bc

1. Salbyk kurgan before excavation, 5th-4th c.BC, upper Enisey-Irtysh interfluvial.
2. By the Third millennium BC, the Kurgan were breeding horses and organized themselves into militarized chiefdoms.
3. Kurgan IV or Yamna culture, first half of the 3rd millennium BC, encompassing the entire steppe region from the Ural to Romania.
4. Kurgan IV or Pit Grave culture, first half of the 3rd millennium BC, encompassing the entire steppe region from the Ural to Romania.

Black Sea

1. One wonders how the first meetings went between the Kurgan people and the people of the Black Sea.
2. 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.
3. According to the Kurgan hypothesis, chalcolithic steppe cultures of the 5th millennium BC between the Black Sea and the Volga spoke early PIE.

Kurgan Hypothesis

1. Indo-European studies originally suggested the Kurgan hypothesis in the Proto-Greek.
2. Marija Gimbutas originally suggested the Kurgan hypothesis in the 1950s.
3. Wiik--s interpretation of Neolithic farmers as early Indo-Europeans also contradicts the prevailing Kurgan hypothesis.
4. The best information that we have on the earliest inhabitants of the southern Volga River area follows the " Kurgan Hypothesis.

Marija Gimbutas

1. The Yamna culture is identified with the late Proto-Indo-Europeans (PIE) in the Kurgan hypothesis of Marija Gimbutas.
2. The opposite would appear to be true of the *Kurgan* tradition long upheld by Marija *Gimbutas*.

Th Millennium

1. The majority of the Indo-Europeanist community favours the Kurgan hypothesis postulating a 4th millennium expansion from the Pontic steppe.
2. Kurgan II---III, latter half of the 4th millennium BC. Includes the Sredny Stog culture and the Maykop culture of the northern Caucasus.

Grave

1. Some of the graves are covered with a stone cairn or a low earthen mound, the very first predecessor of the kurgan.
2. I believe if we want to understand the origin of the Kurgan grave we do not have to look any further than these mammoth bone huts.
3. A .67 m high earthen kurgan 30 m in diameter contained 121 individual graves of remains placed face up, knees contracted, on ochre with a covering of stone.

Sredny Stog

1. Baalberge Culture dates from between 4000 and 3400 BC and was the result of circumstances beginning with Kurgan Wave I (Sredny Stog).
2. Sredny Stog (and Kemi-Oba), branches of the Kurgan breeders whose economy featured horses, cows, goats, barley, and animal byproducts like leather.

Kurgan Culture

1. Marija Gimbutas on the Kurgan culture's intrusions into Europe: gimbutas.html.
2. The explosion of the kurgan culture out of its western steppe homeland must be associated with an expansion of population.
3. The distribution of blood group B allele in Europe matches the proposed map of Kurgan Culture, and Haplogroup R1a1 (YDNA)distribution.

Anatolia

1. E.g. the Kurgan cultures of the Caucasus and the culture of the -Royal tombs- of Anatolia.
2. Two main candidates exist: the steppes north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (see Kurgan) Anatolia (see Colin Renfrew).

Caucasus

1. Evolving in the Caucasus mountains, the Kurgan folk were pastoralist.
2. RED OR BLONDE HAIR: The Kurgan emerged from the Caucasus, the heartland of blonde and red-haired, "Caucasian" peoples on Earth.

Steppe

1. Iphigeneia Numerous kurgan s, or burial mound s, of the ancient Scythians are scattered across the Crimean steppes.
2. Although he agrees essentially with the Gimbutas thesis that the kurgan steppe zone was the PIE homeland, he gives other theses a proper hearing.
3. Archaeology Kurgan type barrows were characteristic of Bronze Age nomadic peoples of the steppes, from the Altai to the Caucasus and Romania.
4. Kurgan type barrows were characteristic of Bronze Age nomadic peoples of the steppes, from the Altay Mountains to the Caucasus and Romania.

Kurgan Theory

1. The Kurgan Theory is alive and kicking, I don't see any alternative explanation.
2. In half the interval allotted by the Kurgan Theory for diffusion of the bedrock Indo-European into separate languages, the Old Slovene (i.e.

Urheimat

1. Kurgan hypothesis: South Russia as the urheimat of Indo-European peoples.
2. In the Kurgan picture, this would correspond to the latest remaining dialect in the area of the Urheimat, in the early 3rd millennium.

Scythian

1. Published excavations of royal Scythian kurgan (barrow) at Chertomlyk reviewed.
2. From a Scythian kurgan comes a dagger and a gold hammer thought to be worked by Greeks.

Expansion

1. We test two theories of Indo-European origin: the 'Kurgan expansion' and the 'Anatolian farming' hypotheses.
2. Chr., also weit vor Kurgan I mit der Expansion der Bandkeramik auf und waren keine Befestigungen bzw.

Europe

1. By this latter theory (the Kurgan hypothesis), Neolithic peoples in Europe are called " Pre-Indo-Europeans " or "Old Europe".
2. In the context of the Kurgan hypothesis, the culture is seen as non-Indo-European, representing the culture of what Marija Gimbutas termed Old Europe.
3. Balbals are a type of Kurgan Obelisks, ancient stone figures found throughout Central Asia and Eastern and Central Europe.

Cucuteni Culture

1. Kurgan Ukrainian stone stela Cucuteni culture Vin?a culture Beaker culture.
2. Wave 1, predating Kurgan I, expansion from the lower Volga to the Dnieper, leading to coexistence of Kurgan I and the Cucuteni culture.

European

1. Many waves of migration started from the Kurgan region and had a profound impact on European and Asian history.
2. The Kurgan or Battle-Axe people were European and white men.
3. The Kurgan tradition became manifest in Old European territories during three waves of infitration: I at c.
4. Beginning in 3700 B.C., Old European settlements had walls built around them to keep out the Kurgan warriors.

Word Kurgan

1. The word kurgan is of Turkic origin borrowed from Russian language.
2. Quote: The word kurgan means barrow or grave in Slavic and Turkic Red herring.

Kazakhstan

1. Kurgan in Kazakhstan is not the place for Indo-European but Scythian burial.
2. Issyk kurgan, in southern Kazakhstan, containing a skeleton, possibly female, ca.

Buried

1. Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BC), king of Macedonia, is buried in kurgan per Macedonian custom.
2. Some kurgan obelisks are found still standing on kurgans, others were found buried in the slopes.

Ca

1. Aleksandrovo kurgan, a Thracian kurgan of ca.
2. Proponents of the Kurgan hypothesis tend to date the proto-language to ca.
3. The Kurgan culture of Russia is often identified with the Proto-Indo-European people.
4. Interestingly, this same culture is suggested to correspond to the Proto-Indo-Europeans in the Kurgan hypothesis.
5. They pre-date Kurgan expansion into Anatolian, Aegean, and Balkan cultures.

Kurgan

1. The language spoken by the Kurgan peoples was the Proto-PIE language.
2. The early I-E speakers were Kurgan nomadic warriors.
3. Thus specialists have postulated the existence of such subfamilies (subgroups) as Germanic with Slavic, kurgan and Italo-Celtic.
4. Ringe) as westward Kurgan migrations (with the Centum-Satem shift in Yamnaya occurring after Greek separated).
5. The Kurgan might not be out of the picture entirely, says McMahon - they may have triggered a later wave of languages.

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