Catacomb culture

The Katakombengrab culture ( also Katakombenkultur or late Yamnaya - culture ) is a Northern Pontic, spätneolithisch - copper- stone age archaeological culture whose area of ​​distribution of approximately 2500 to 2000 BC was between the Carpathians and the Urals in Russia and Ukraine.

The dead were buried under kurgans with an attached laterally to the chamber base deep shaft for the funeral. The underground part of the plant is similar to the Egyptian mastabas.

The car grave tradition of the Maikop culture continued to Novotitarovskaja culture and the Katakombengrab culture. The culture was also due to the metal -processing together Kuban culture in the Northern Caucasus is like this through the use of so-called Pontic hammerhead needles (needles with hammerförmigem head) characterized. The Katakombengrab people possessed a wide range of bronze appliances and ceramic set with ribbed, incised geometric, partly spiral patterns here. You may worshiped a male deity with ax, bow (or snake) and scepter. Some authors see in them the ancestors of the Cimmerians.

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