Botai horse-breeders vs Yamnaya migrants: who won?
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2022-5-9-23
Abstract
Aim. The article is a brief review of the main historiographic tendencies and is devoted to the period of globalization in the Eurasian steppes – the period of formation and domination of the elite clans of the Еneolithic and Early Bronze Age.
Methodology. Based on the data of population genetics, radiocarbon dating and graphic sources, the author substantiates the model of population interaction in the Kazakh Steppe and Turkestan.
Results. On the basis of the well-known innovations of horse equipment, carts, and other means of transport and success in domestication of horses and horse-riding, the main vectors of communications of the population and general trends in the development of the ethnocultural situation in this period are considered.
Research implications. The noted factors and features of a complex model of communication and interaction of ancient societies in the steppe Eurasia, which at different stages of the historical process constantly demonstrate the inevitable hegemony or expansion of small, but progressive clans, that obtain advanced innovations and are subordinate to ethnic identity.
About the Author
V. A. Novozhenov
UNESCO Center for the Rapprochement of Cultures
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Victor A. Novozhenov – Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Researcher
Kabanbaybatyr 94, Almaty 005550
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