Arkaim

Arkaim
Аркаим (in Russian)
Aerial view of the main citadel
Arkaim site in Russia
Arkaim site in Russia
Shown within European Russia
Arkaim site in Russia
Arkaim site in Russia
Arkaim (Russia)
LocationBredinsky District, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
RegionKazakh Steppe
Coordinates52°38′57.34″N 59°34′17.194″E / 52.6492611°N 59.57144278°E / 52.6492611; 59.57144278
TypeSettlement
Area2 ha (4.9 acres)
History
PeriodsLate Middle Bronze Age
CulturesSintashta culture
Site notes
ArchaeologistsGennady Zdanovich
OwnershipPublic
Public accessYes

Arkaim (Russian: Аркаим) is a fortified archaeological site, dated to c. 2150-1650 BCE,[1] belonging to the Sintashta culture, situated in the steppe of the Southern Urals, 8.2 km (5.10 mi) north-northwest of the village of Amursky and 2.3 km (1.43 mi) east-southeast of the village of Alexandrovsky in the Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia, just north of the border with Kazakhstan.[2] It was discovered in 1987 by a team of archaeologists which later came under the leadership of Gennady Zdanovich. The realization of its importance unprecedentedly forestalled the planned flooding of the area for a reservoir.[3] The construction of Arkaim is attributed to the early Proto-Indo-Iranian-speakers of the Sintashta culture, which some scholars believe represents the proto-Indo-Iranians before their split into different groups and migration to Central Asia and from there to Persia, India and other parts of Eurasia.[4]

  1. ^ Ural Federal University, (August 16, 2021). "Legendary Arkaim, Sintashta, Emder - discoveries of our archaeologists": "...The fortified settlement of Arkaim relating to the 22nd-17th centuries B.C. is perhaps the most famous archeological monument among the so-called "Country of Cities", a "necklace" of ancient settlements on the territory of the South Urals..."
  2. ^ Koryakova, Ludmila; Kohl, Philip L. (2000). "Complex Societies of Central Eurasia from the 3d to the 1st Millennia b.c.: Regional Specifics in the Light of Global Models". Current Anthropology. 41 (4). University of Chicago Press: 638–642. doi:10.1086/317391. JSTOR 10.1086/317391. S2CID 146764291.
  3. ^ Shnirelman 1998, p. 33.
  4. ^ Shnirelman 1998, p. 35, The discovery in the southern Urals of a perfectly conserved city some 3,600 years old was not merely a significant archaeological event. As V. A. Shnirelman explains, it set off a chain reaction of far‐fetched speculation and extreme ethnic nationalism which sought to exploit the find for purely political purposes..

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