entity · arch_srsc1_kobiakovo_culture
Kobiakovo culture
Also known as: Kobyakovo culture, Kobiakovskaya culture
A lower Don archaeological classification associated with the closing Bronze Age and transition into early Iron Age systems.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1200 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines or contextualizes classification
The Closing Phase of the Late Bronze Age on the Lower Don (Sites of the Kobiakovo Culture) — E. S. Sharafutdinova (1975)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - informs · defines or contextualizes classification
Archaeological and Anthropological Aspects of the Study of the Pre-Scythian Burials from the Volga-Don Interfluve — Mariya A. Balabanova, Alexander N. Dyachenko (2024)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion
Research description
The label is retained for historiographic continuity. Older migration explanations and its relationship to neighbouring steppe and Caucasian assemblages require renewed testing.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not an ethnicity
A modern archaeological classification based on material patterns rather than a secure ancient self-identified people.
Why does this record have this property?
The record groups material, chronological, or regional evidence. No assignment of language, ancestry, ancient self-designation, or modern national continuity follows from the label alone.
- The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
supports assignment · Regional culture classification and cautions - The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
contextualizes · Mobility, interaction, and culture models
Evidence and sources
- contextualizes · defines or contextualizes classification
The Closing Phase of the Late Bronze Age on the Lower Don (Sites of the Kobiakovo Culture) — E. S. Sharafutdinova (1975)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_kobiakovo_culture.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - contextualizes · defines or contextualizes classification
Archaeological and Anthropological Aspects of the Study of the Pre-Scythian Burials from the Volga-Don Interfluve — Mariya A. Balabanova, Alexander N. Dyachenko (2024)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_kobiakovo_culture.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion