Re: [tied] Early Roman Iron Age Burials in Denmark II

From: george knysh
Message: 11728
Date: 2001-12-07

--- Alexander Stolbov <astolbov@...> wrote:
(GK) AFAIK the earliest war chariot of
> any
> > type discovered so far (a solid wheeler)was part
> of a
> > Catacomb culture burial at Mariivka just west of
> the
> > Dnipro: cf. N.N. Cherednichenko, S.Zh. Pustovalov,
> > "Boevie kolesnitsi v obshchestve katakombnoj
> kulturi
> > (po materialam razkopok v Nizhnim Podneprovie)" in
> > Sovetskaia Arkheologiia (1991), n.4, pp. 206-216.
> > ["War chariots in the Catacomb culture society"].
> The
> > Catacomb culture (successor to the Yamna) has now
> been
> > redated to ca. 2900-1800 BC (extreme early/late
> > calibrated RC dates) or 2600-2200 BC (median RC
> > calibrations): see the article in ANTIQUITY 74
> (2000)
> > pp.793-799 on the Kalmykia finds).*****
> >
>
> Thanks for the references.
> I'll read the articles but perhaps you answer me
> quicker one particular
> question - the number of wheels that chariot from
> Mariivka had.
>
> Alexander

*****GK: It was a "two-wheeler".*****
>
>
>


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