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The Koban culture or Kuban culture (c. 1200 to 350 BC),Boulygina, Eugenia, et al., (2020). "Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome diversity of the prehistoric Koban culture of the North Caucasus", in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 31, June 2020, 102357, Introduction: "The Koban culture was widespread on both sides of the Great Caucasus Range during the 13th/12th – 4th centuries BC. It is widely known because of its advanced metallurgy as well as developed terraced agriculture (Korobov and Borisov, 2013)." is a late and culture of the northern and central . It is preceded by the of the western Caucasus and the Kharachoi culture further east.

It is named after the village of Koban, , where in 1869 battle-axes, daggers, decorative items and other objects were discovered in a . Later, further sites were uncovered in the central Caucasus.


Geographical extent
The culture flourished on both sides of the Great Caucasus Range, and extended into the areas of , Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, and North Ossetia-Alania, and . It also reached the high north-western regions of Georgia such as and . Some areas of Northeast Caucasus also had Koban settlements, in particular the modern and the western regions of .P. Kohl, Viktor Trifonov, The prehistory of the Caucasus: internal developments and external interactions. 2014

To the north, the culture extended as far as the , and to the in the Krasnodar area.Kozenkova 1977, 2004; Tsokur 2004


Description
The early phase of the Koban culture, especially in the west, possibly extends back as far as the 13th century BC, as the recent radiocarbon dates indicate.Belinsky et al. 2009

The Koban culture settlements (as opposed to isolated cemeteries) have been little studied, with the exception of those located in the modern Chechnya, such as near Serzhen-Yurt, and near Bamut; these were major centers from around 11th century BC to around the 7th century BC.Evgeni Chernykh, Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR: The Early Metal Age. CUP Archive, 1992, p278

The remains include dwellings, cobble bridges, altars, iron objects, bones, and clay and stone objects. There were sickles and stone grain grinders. Grains that were grown included wheat, rye and barley. Cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, pigs and horses were kept. There were shops, where artisans worked on and sold pottery, stone-casting, bone-carving, and stone-carving. There is evidence for an advanced stage of metallurgy. There was differentiation of professionals organized within clans.


Tli cemetery
The Tli cemetery contained many rich burials. It is located near the village of Tli in South Ossetia, in the Tligom ravine (). The excavations started at the end of the 19th century, and continued in 1955–1988. B. V. Tekhov excavated more than five hundred burials, with detailed publications.

The earliest burials at Tli cemetery go back to the 16th-14th centuries BC (pre-Koban period). Then the cemetery was used for almost the entire period of existence of the Koban culture.


Ethnic affiliation
believes the Koban culture was primarily .Jaimoukha. Chechens. Page 23-28. He argues that while all these cultures probably were made by people included among the genetic ancestors of the Northern Caucasian Nakh (i.e. Chechens and Ingush), it was either the Koban or Kharachoi culture that was the first culture made by the cultural and linguistic ancestors of the Chechens (meaning the Chechens first arrived in their homeland 3000–4000 years ago). Jaimoukha postulates that the end of the Koban culture was brought about by Scythian invasions.

has written that, "There is fairly seamless archeological continuity for the last 8000 years or more in central Daghestan, suggesting that the Nakh-Daghestanian language family is long indigenous."

A genetic study in 2020 analysing samples from Klin-Yar communities, including the Koban culture, found that the ancient population had one sample of Haplogroup D-Z27276, which is associated with the modern . Other haplogroups were Haplogroup J1 and Haplogroup G-M285.


The arts
The surviving bronze items reflect the high level of development of the artistic skills of the ancient masters. In museums and private collections there are objects with remnants of , which confirm that they began to decorate metal products with fired enamel.
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