• The Botai culture is an archaeological culture (c. 3700–3100 BC) of prehistoric northern Central Asia. It was named after the settlement of Botai in today's...
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  • gives its name to a nearby archaeological site, the type site of the Botai culture, which dates to the Eneolithic period (c. 3500 BCE) and has produced...
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    approximately 3500 BC. Discoveries in the context of the Botai culture had suggested that Botai settlements in the Akmola Province of Kazakhstan are the...
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    ancient horses of the Botai culture are related to takhis, not to domestic horses as was previously thought. Specifically, the Botai horses appeared to be...
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    agriculture, giving rise to the Atbasar, Kelteminar, Botai, and Ust-Narym cultures. The Botai culture (3600–3100 BC) is credited with the first domestication...
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    stelae Butmir culture Vinča culture Beaker culture Baden culture Botai culture Khvalynsk culture Mamai-Hora Samara culture Sintashta culture Yersinia pestis...
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    Varna culture was a Chalcolithic culture of northeastern Bulgaria, dated c. 4500 BC, contemporary and closely related with the Gumelnița culture. The oldest...
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    The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (German: Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Dutch: Trechterbekercultuur; Danish: Tragtbægerkultur; c...
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    western Eurasian Steppes in what is now northern Kazakhstan (see the Botai culture). Bactria Margiana civilization (circa 3000 BC) alongside trade routes...
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    Archaeological investigations of the Botai culture of ancient Kazakhstan have revealed traces of milk in bowls from the site of Botai, suggesting the domestication...
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