Ipatovo kurgan
Ipatovo kurgan refers to kurgan 2 of the Ipatovo Barrow Cemetery 3, a cemetery of kurgan burial mounds, located near the town of Ipatovo in Stavropol Krai, Russia, some 120 kilometers (75 mi) northeast of Stavropol.
With a height of 7 meters (23 ft), it was one of the largest kurgans in the area. It was completely investigated in 1998–1999, revealing thirteen phases of construction and use, from the 4th millennium BCE to the 18th century.
The first grave may have been a burial of the Maykop culture, which was destroyed by later graves. The earliest extant grave contained two young people, buried in a sitting position, dating to the late 4th millennium.
The large Ipatovo mound displayed three wagon burials of the Early and Late Catacomb cultures [1][2]
On top of the kurgan was a
In the final phase, over one hundred simple graves were dug into the southern slope of the barrow; probably 18th century burials of the nomadic Turkic Nogai people.
References
- ^ Reinhold, S.; Gresky, J.; Berezina, N.; Kantorovich, A.R., Knipper, C.; Maslov, V. E.; Petrenko, V. G. et al. (2017): Contextualising Innovation: Cattle Owners and Wagon Drivers in the North Caucasus and Beyond. Chapter 8. In Joseph Maran, Philipp Stockhammer (Eds.): Appropriating Innovations. Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000‒1500 BCE. Havertown: Oxbow Books Limited, pp. 78–97.
- ^ Holm, Hans J. J. G. (2019): The Earliest Wheel Finds, their Archeology and Indo-European Terminology in Time and Space, and Early Migrations around the Caucasus. Series Minor 43. Budapest: ARCHAEOLINGUA ALAPÍTVÁNY. ISBN 978-615-5766-30-5.
- Andrej B. Belinskij, Alexej A. Kalmykov, Sergej N. Korenevskij and Heinrich Harke, The Ipatovo kurgan on the North Caucasian Steppe, Antiquity, December 2000. (this link does not lead to the article!)