Usatovo culture

The archaeological Usatovo culture about 3300 develops up to 3200 BC, in the northwest of the Black Sea between the present-day Odessa and the mouth of the Danube, on the basis of Suvorovo culture, the Cernavoda - cultures in the south and from the north propagating farmers of the ending Cucuteni - Tripol'e cultures. These come under the influence of steppe nomads of the pit - grave form of the so-called Kurgankultur.

The eponymous excavation is in today Usatovo on the north western edge of Odessa, where she is already largely built over.

Grave moral

After Anthony can the two groups differ significantly in the grave manners. Signs of the former Tripol'e cultures can be found in these relatively new body burials in cemeteries. Here there are no weapons offerings, for female figurines. In contrast, buried the new rulers of the steppe in richly appointed kurgans, especially with weapons offerings such as bronze daggers and axes. A typical addition are also common in the steppe cultures stelae.

Ceramics

It is found both in the ceramic rich banded, high fired Tripol'e style, as well as plain steppe pottery with cord ornament. Only in Kurgan graves found even prestige pottery of the Maikop culture from the northeast edge of the Black Sea. In contrast, Cernavoda - ceramic was only up to about 2%, and never in tombs.

Ecology

Not only the Majkop ceramics points to long-distance trade over the entire Black Sea. Finds a simple glass beads are long-distance trade with the Aegean area. All known Usatovo settlements are located on estuaries. In Usatovo the first evidence of cereal cultivation found (often millet and oats, along with emmer, wheat, barley, and peas).

Ancestors of the Germans?

Anthony's thesis offshoot of Usatovo culture were migrated to the north and had formed the nucleus of the Vorgermanen in today's Poland, is practically impossible to comprehend.

Swell

• JP Mallory, " Usatavo Culture", Encyclopedia of Indo- European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
• David W. Anthony in 2007. " The horse, the wheel, and language ". Pages 349-360. Princeton University Press. Princeton and Oxford.

• Archaeological Culture ( Copper Age )
• Archaeological Culture ( Europe)