The Maikop kurgan (Russian: Майкопский курган), excavated by Nikolay Veselovsky in 1897 near Maikop, Southern Russia, is the eponym of the Early Bronze...

Bronze Age Eurasian steppe cultures. The Maikop kurgan dates to the 3rd millennium BC. The Novovelichkovskaya kurgan of c. 2000 BC on the Ponura River, Krasnodar...

the Uruk period in Mesopotamia. The finds in the Maikop kurgan (tumulus) and other kurgans of the Maikop Culture are still regarded as unique to this day...

Russia. Maykop or Maikop may also refer to: Maykop culture, prehistoric culture of the northern Caucasus, ca. 3500 BCE–2500 BCE Maikop kurgan, the eponym for...

hunter-gatherers, in addition to a possible later influence from the language of the Maikop culture to the south (which is hypothesized to have belonged to the North...

anthropologist David W. Anthony, in which the author describes his "revised Kurgan theory." He explores the origins and spread of the Indo-European languages...

as well as several notable kurgans in Southern Russia and Ukraine, notably the Solokha, Kostromskaya and Maikop kurgans. Some of the finest examples...

related to the cultures of the Near East. "In Rezepkin’s view, the older Maikop Culture stood under the influence of Mesopotamia, whereas he postulates...

addition to a possible later and lesser influence from the language of the Maikop culture to the south (which is hypothesized to have belonged to the North...

Afrasiab (the oldest part of Samarkand), as well as the Solokha and Maikop kurgans in Southern Russia Viacheslav Petrovich Volgin, (1879–1962), historian...