Botai culture

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Botai Culture is termed Eneolithic (c. 3700-3100 BC). It was named by settlement Botai in Aqmola Province of Kazakhstan. The Botai culture has other two large sites: Krasnyi Yar, and Vasilkovka.

The site of Botai is located on the Iman-Burluk River, a tributary of the Ishim River. The site has at least 153 pithouses. In times the settlement was partly destroyed by the steeply eroding river bank.

The occupations of the Botai people were connected to their horses. Many researchers state that horses were domesticated right here by "botai" people. But most of used horses were probably the wild species, Equus ferus, that was hunted with bows and arrows and harpoons.

The Carnegie Museum has been involved in excavation.

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[edit] References

• Botai discovery; Carnegie Mellon University
• The Horse in Mortuary Symbolism in the European Steppes, 5000-4500 BC; Anthropology Department at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

[edit] See also

• Domestication of the horse