- Botai culture
Botai Culture is termed Eneolithic (c. 3700-3100 BC). It was named by settlement Botai in
Aqmola Province ofKazakhstan . The Botai culture has other two large sites:Krasnyi Yar , andVasilkovka .The site of Botai is located on the
Iman-Burluk River , a tributary of theIshim 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.Notes
References
* [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/60-427/amanda/discovery.htm Botai discovery; Carnegie Mellon University]
* [http://users.hartwick.edu/iaes/horseback/horse.html The Horse in Mortuary Symbolism in the European Steppes, 5000-4500 BC; Anthropology Department at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY]See also
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Domestication of the horse
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