history of Transcaucasia
history of Transcaucasia, history of the region from prehistoric times to the present. Food-gathering cultures of Mesolithic type, as represented by discoveries near Nalchik (Russia) in the central Caucasus, continued in this region until quite late. They were replaced in the later part of the 3rd millennium bc by the Kuban culture, which left its remains in many thousands of burial mounds, or kurgans, on the steppes of Ciscaucasia. This Kuban culture, which lasted through the Late Bronze Age into Early Iron Age times, was undoubtedly stimulated by contact with the higher civilization of Mesopotamia. The grave furniture of the ...(100 of 1989 words)