Koban culture

Koban culture

The Koban culture (ca. 1100 to 400 BC) is a late Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of the northern and central Caucasus. It is preceded by the Colchian culture of the western Caucasus.

It is named after the village of Koban, Northern Ossetia, where in 1869 battle-axes, daggers, decorative items and other objects were discovered in a kurgan. Later, further sites were uncovered in the central Caucasus.

External links

* [http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_2_4.html Collection of the Koban artefacts in the Hermitage]


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