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Associated with the spread of Indo-European languages. And, possibly horse domestication. The Sredny Stog culture was an important neolithic, to early bronze age culture
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Associated with the spread of Indo-European languages. And, possibly horse domestication. The Sredny Stog culture was an important neolithic, to early bronze age culture A culture concentrated around the middle Dnieper region. It is named after the Sredny Stog site in…
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The Pontic–Caspian steppe is a steppe extending across eastern Europe to central Asia. Horses and the proto Indo-European language originated here
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A geographical feature stretches from the northern shores of the Black Sea. In the Pontus Euxinus of antiquityIt extends to the northern area, around the Caspian Sea. And, At the Ural-Caspian narrowing, it ends. Where it joins another steppe. The Kazakh…
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Elshanka is an early neolithic culture. It flourished in the middle Volga region. They have revealed Europe’s oldest pottery
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Named after the Elshanka settlement site. In the Lower Volga region of modern-day Russia. A neolithic culture existed 9000 years ago Elshanka culture is distinguished by its potteryTypically it included simple, undecorated ceramic vessels. Like from clay rich mud, collected from…
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In the region between the Dnieper and Donets rivers, which is now part of Ukraine & western Russia. A unique neolithic culture existed called the Dneiper-Donets
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The Dneiper-donets cultural complex (DDCC), was a mesolithic, and neolithic culture north of the Black sea. It dates to around 5000-4200 BC. It has parallels to the contemporary Samara culture to the north; (1)(2) and, Sredny Stog culture too. Which it…
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9,000 Years of Seals, Fire, Fishing & Seasonal Survival on Lake Baikal. Sagan-Zaba: The Neolithic Architecture of a Siberian Lake
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Sagan-Zaba is one of the most interesting prehistoric sites on Lake Baikal—but it is important to separate two things that are often blended together: Sagan-Zaba II, the habitation site, and Sagan-Zaba I, the famous rock-art panel. The habitation sequence…
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Suchu Island: a Neolithic “River Town” of the Lower Amur
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Suchu Island (Остров Сучу) is one of the most remarkable Neolithic settlements in the Russian Far East. It was not in central Russia or western Siberia. It lies in the Lower Amur region of the Russian Far East, in…
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Khvalynsk & the Samara Region: Architecture, Rivers & the Rise of the Eneolithic Steppe
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> A river civilization without a cityImagine standing beside the Volga around 4500 BCE. There is no city of Khvalynsk yet, no road, no bridge, no electricity and certainly no Russian town. Instead there is a broad river, marshy floodplain,…
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Hunter-fisher-gatherers, some of the world’s earliest pottery, river architecture & survival during the climatic upheavals of the Late Glacial. Osipovka & Gromatukha: The Amur River’s Ice-Age Pottery Makers
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Long before the great farming villages of Mesopotamia, Anatolia or the Levant, people living beside the Amur River in eastern Eurasia were already making potteryThey were not farmers. They did not grow wheat. They did not herd sheep. They…
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Reindeer, rivers, bone technology & a remarkable inland culture at the far northeastern edge of Eurasia. Ust-Belaya, Chukotka: Architecture at the Edge of the Forest-Tundra
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Far to the northeast of Moscow, beyond Siberia’s great forests, beyond Lake Baikal, and deep inside the Russian Far East, the Anadyr River cuts through the landscape of Chukotka. Here the river is enormous compared with the small streams…
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