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Posted on 07/24/2025 9:43:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Aze.Media reports that a team of researchers from several Azerbaijani institutions unearthed a remarkable [3,800]-year-old tomb belonging to a high-status Bronze Age warrior. The archaeologists were investigating an area of Keshikchidagh State Historical and Cultural Reserve when they located the kurgan, or burial mound, which measured 90 feet in diameter and stood 6 feet high. When the archaeologists began excavating this feature, they revealed a large central interior chamber that was covered with 14 large stone blocks, each weighing approximately one ton. The tomb within this passage was divided into three sections: one containing the body and personal equipment, another filled with ceramic vessels, and a third that was left empty, possibly as a symbolic gesture reflecting beliefs of the afterlife. The imposing deceased male, who would have been well over six feet tall, held a rare four-pronged bronze spear in his hand, signaling his status as an elite warrior. Other grave goods included a bronze bracelet, a circular limestone seal, elaborately decorated and inlaid vases, obsidian tools, and cooked animal bones, which were intended to provide the warrior sustenance for his journey to the afterworld. To read about kurgan burials uncovered in Russia, go to "Ancient DNA Revolution: A Bronze Age Family Tree."
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Bronze spearhead, Keshikchidagh, AzerbaijanMinistry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan
1800 BC.
Too early for IraniC peoples or indeed any indo Europeans.
Perhaps Hurrian?
Just think, 3500 years old and it’s as lethal as the day it was made...
Norseman.
Lot of folks lived in and/or rolled through the area, also, it may be puzzling right now if it’s an outlier compared with other finds in the area. Also the dating hasn’t necessarily been verified.
Nah. But I do want to see some Viking Kitties this morning.
Yeah, I’d not want to be on the rec’ing end of it even now.
I’d like a replica of it. How cool would that be?
Proto-Indo-European is much earlier than that. The earliest Greek speakers invaded Greece no later than 1900 B.C. The Anatolian languages (Hittite, Luwian and Palaic) were in Asia Minor by 2000 B.C. (they are variously considered Indo-European or a closely-related language family).
I was looking up maps to support my statement above and found that I was wrong. You are correct about those dates
I don’t know if we have evidence for the language spoken at that time in that region. The modern Azerbaijani language is close to Turkish, I think. The name comes from the ancient Media Atropatene—named for a person named Atropates who fought on the Persian side at Gaugamela but later sided with Alexander and received that region in the breakup of Alexander’s empire. So maybe it was a Median-speaking area in the first millennium B.C., but maybe it had a different language in the second millennium B.C. I don’t know when the Iranian languages spread to that region.
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