Sredny Stog culture

The Sredny - Stog culture ( also Srednij Stog or Skelya - culture ) is a Northern Pontic Neolithic / Chalcolithic archaeological culture that about 4500 BC to 3500 BC north of the Azov Sea between the rivers Dnieper and Don (now Russia and Ukraine) was located. The name comes from that Ukrainian village where the culture was first isolated. One of the most famous associated with this culture settlements is Derijiwka on the Dnieper. On the Sredny - Stog culture follows the Yamnaya culture.

The culture is one of the so-called Kurgankulturen. The deceased lying on her back with her ​​legs pulled up and sometimes sprinkled with ocher. Cord Decorated crockery and Steinaxtformen that may come with the Indo-Europeans to the west, occur in the final phase.

Some researchers see in the people of the settlement Sredniy Stog II (4200-3700 BC), the oldest horse breeders in the world. The British archaeologist MA Levine finds, however, no clear evidence that you took advantage of horses before the end of the 3rd millennium as a train or mounts. ( 1.6 to 1.75 m Height 1.2-1.4 m today ) unsuitable and draft animals (cattle) already existed in the region for the latter the diminutive animals were. The horses were thus eaten. They crowded with progressive drought back to the keeping of cattle. Evidence of the consumption of horse meat ( hippophagie ) there from Derijiwka on the Dnieper (Ukraine ), where around 4000 BC, about 60 % of all the bones of horses originate. In Repin on-Don, there were about 80 % and in Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan even about 90%. Levine holds in Derijiwka and Botai (Kazakhstan ) studied horse bones for those of the wild type and for dietary residues.

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