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Communal burial mound of the nomadic peoples of central Asia, the oldest dating to the Bronze Age. Kurgans are circular mounds of earth situated in the summer pasture lands, used to inter the dead of a community.
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Bronze Age
The invention of metallurgy marks the onset of the Bronze Age in Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.
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