Koban culture
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The Koban culture or Kuban culture, is a late Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of the northern and central Caucasus. It is succeeded by the Colchian culture of the western Caucasus and the Kharachoi cu
Bronze axe with iron inlay decoration from Klin-Yar, c. 700 BC
Ram-headed pendant of the Koban culture
Bronze buckles with vitreous enamel
Bronze with remnants of vitreous enamel
Klin-Yar
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Klin-Yar is a prehistoric and early medieval site in the North Caucasus, outside of Kislovodsk. It was first discovered in the 1980s. Archaeological excavations had uncovered settlement traces and ext
Koban culture
…and private collections there are objects with remnants of vitreous enamel, which confirm that they began to decorate metal products with fired enamel. Klin-Yar Nikoloz Gobejishvil (2014), Interrelation of Colchian and Koban Cultures According to Burial Constructions and Funerary Customs (Late Bronze – Early…
Grave types at Klin-Yar: Koban (upper left), Sarmatian (lower left) and Alanic (right) (drawn by M. Mathews)
Early medieval sword from Alanic grave 360 at Klin-Yar (photo I. Kozhevnikov; scale: cm)
The Late Sarmatian-Alanic elite plot in the cemetery of Klin-Yar (drawn by M. Mathews)