The Emergence of Iskit’s Kurgans in the North Caucasus and North Blacksea Cover Image

Kuzey Kafkasya ve Kuzey Karadeniz’deki İskit Kurganlarının Ortaya Çıkışı
The Emergence of Iskit’s Kurgans in the North Caucasus and North Blacksea

Author(s): Kürşat Koçak
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: İskits; Kurgans; Steppe; Caucaus; Blacksea;

Summary/Abstract: The dominant nomadic tribe in the Nort Caucaus and the Nort Blacksea was the İskit bringing a new culture since 8th century B.C. Although there are lots of discussion about this tribe’s root, the most common is that they are from Middle Asia. The most important resource about the early age “the history” by Herodot is the base of this opinion.However, the first settler was Kimmers the İskits held sway from the North Caspian Sea to Volga, Don, Dinyeper, Bug Dinyester rivers and the north Blacksea and the East Europe. Moreover, they organized lots of expeditions to the Balkans and Anatolıa. They put the products got during the expeditions in the kurgans. The belief living in the other world and ancestor cult caused the kurgan yo come out. They cared the kurgans and they built kurgans in the different size and prosperity. The first excavations about the kurgans made by Russian scientists and they classified according to the building techniques . Also, the archeological offering provides us important information about steppe life style. According to the information we learn thanks to the archeological offering İskit’s animal style art spread from Asia to the East Europe. And these works were found in the kurgans in Caucaus, North Blacksea East Europe.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 66-78
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish