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Excavated places tagged “horse”

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🇺🇦Ukraine

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🇫🇷 France · Rock art

Pech Merle Cave

Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer

Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.

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🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus

Kostromskaya Kurgan – Maikop Iron Canopy Grave

Early Iron Age, Early Scythian (Kuban group) · Early Scythian (Kubano–Chernogorovka) proto-Scythian elite

7th-c. BCE 30-m Maikop-Mounded Scythian tent-canopy grave with iron-shod poles and 22 horse sacrifice.

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🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan

Khvalynsk Cemetery (Khvalynsk I-II)

Eneolithic Chalcolithic; Khvalynsk pre-Yamnaya · Khvalynsk culture (Volga Eneolithic) → Repin → Yamnaya

Volga Eneolithic type cemetery (200 graves, 4700–3900 BCE) — Khvalynsk culture copper maces, ochre burials and earliest steppe horse sacrifice, pre-Yamnaya origin.