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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Tasmola Early Saka (8th–6th c BCE) with Korgantas secondary 400 BCE · Tasmola (Tagisken) + Korgantas Karaganda
58 m Tasmola massif annex 6.8 m with 12×14 m enclosure and 6 horse ditch sacrifices — central massif not satellite.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Early Scythian (Kuban group) · Early Scythian (Kubano–Chernogorovka) proto-Scythian elite
7th-c. BCE 30-m Maikop-Mounded Scythian tent-canopy grave with iron-shod poles and 22 horse sacrifice.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Mongolian Bronze) · Mongolian Late Bronze pastoralists
80+ Late Bronze khirigsuurs (1400–800 BCE) on Arkhangai plateau — horse-skull cairn field at 1680 m.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Late Harappan → Pirak I–III 1800–800 BCE → Iron Age · Pirak culture (post-Harappan / early Iron Age, Indo-Iranian?)
Post-Harappan / Iron Age settlement (c.1800–800 BCE) south of Sibi at the Bolan Pass mouth, Balochistan — type-site for Pirak culture documenting the Harappan → Iron Age transition.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Eneolithic Chalcolithic; Khvalynsk pre-Yamnaya · Khvalynsk culture (Volga Eneolithic) → Repin → Yamnaya
Volga Eneolithic type cemetery (200 graves, 4700–3900 BCE) — Khvalynsk culture copper maces, ochre burials and earliest steppe horse sacrifice, pre-Yamnaya origin.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Middle Sarmatian · Sarmatian frontier
Kyzyl-Tobe north outpost: 18-m isolated kurgan with rampart overlooking Uil River ford.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Late Yamnaya → Catacomb → Srubnaya · Yamnaya → Catacomb Grave culture → Srubnaya (Timber Grave)
Kalmyk steppe Catacomb Grave kurgans (2800–2200 BCE) with shaft-and-niche chambers cut into Yamnaya mounds — post-Yamnaya chariot horizon and ‘caterpillar’ pottery.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer
Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.
