Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni complex

The Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni complex was a late Bronze Age archaeological cultural complex located in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania, dating from the 16th to 11th centuries BC, consisting of the closely related Noua, Sabatinovka and Coslogeni cultures.[1][2][3][4]

Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni complex
Geographical rangeUkraine, Moldova, Romania
PeriodBronze Age
Dates16th century - 11th century BC
Preceded byMulti-cordoned ware culture, Srubnaya culture, Monteoru culture, Wietenberg culture, Tei culture
Followed byUrnfield culture, Gava culture, Belozerka culture

Characteristics

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Representatives of the Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni complex were engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding.[5][6]

Origin

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The Sabatinovka culture was formed on the basis of the Multi-Cordon Ware culture,[7][5] there is also the influence of the Srubnaya culture and Monteoru.[8][2] Noua culture and Coslogeni were formed as a result of the fusion of local cultures (Monteoru, Tei and Wietenbrg cultures) with the arriving carriers of the Sabatinovka culture.[6] The relationship of the archaeological complex as part of the Srubnaya culture is a subject of debate.[9]

Successors

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Belozerka culture was the successor of the Sabatinovka culture.[8]

Noua culture and Coslogeni was absorbed by Urnfield culture (Gava culture)[2]

Ethnicity

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Noua culture and Coslogeni were of Thracian origin, while Sabatinovka culture were of Iranian or Thracian origin.[10][11]

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Genetics

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Haplogroups

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Noua culture and Sabatinovka culture had a male haplogroup R1a, from female haplogroups were present J1, U8a1a1, U2e1b.[13]

Autosomal DNA

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The Noua and Sabatinovka cultures have a genetically similar origin, which distinguishes the Noua culture from its predecessor Monteoru, which was predominantly of Neolithic origin.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Bronze Age". The National Museum of History of Moldova. 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Boroffka, Nikolaus (2013). "Chapter 47: Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria". In Harding, Anthony; Fokkens, Harry (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. OUP Oxford. pp. 888–890. ISBN 978-0-19-957286-1. The Late Bronze Age is marked by two cultural groupings, a south-eastern (Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni) and a western (channelled pottery). ... in Moldova and Ukraine, a specific settlement type of the Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni complex is the so-called ash-mound
  3. ^ Parzinger, Hermann (2013). "Chapter 48: Ukraine and South Russia in the Bronze Age". In Harding, Anthony; Fokkens, Harry (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-957286-1. The absolute chronology of the Noua culture, based on radiocarbon dating and synchronisms with the Carpathian Basin, fits in the fourteenth to thirteenth/twelfth centuries BC. To a large extent this corresponds to the beginnings of the Sabatinovka culture and emphasizes the contemporaneity of the two cultures.
  4. ^ "Noua culture". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
  5. ^ a b Kuzmina, Elena E. (2015). Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian) (29 ed.). Moscow. p. 173.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ a b Sava, E.N. (2013). Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian) (23 ed.). Moscow. pp. 96–97.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Kuzmina, Elena E. (2007). Mallory, J. P. (ed.). The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL. pp. 355–359. ISBN 978-90-04-16054-5.
  8. ^ a b Kuzmina 2007, pp. 356.
  9. ^ Kuzmina 2007, pp. 355.
  10. ^ Kuzmina 2007, pp. 355–359.
  11. ^ Sulimirski, T. (1985). "The Scyths". In Gershevitch, I. (ed.). The Median and Achaemenian Periods. The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 2. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 152–183. ISBN 978-1-139-05493-5.
  12. ^ "Bronze Age". The National Museum of History of Moldova. 2023.
  13. ^ Lazaridis, Iosif; Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Songül; Acar, Ayşe; Açıkkol, Ayşen; Agelarakis, Anagnostis; Aghikyan, Levon; Akyüz, Uğur; Andreeva, Desislava; Andrijašević, Gojko; Antonović, Dragana; Armit, Ian; Atmaca, Alper; Avetisyan, Pavel; Aytek, Ahmet İhsan; Bacvarov, Krum (2022). "The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe". Science. 377 (6609): eabm4247. doi:10.1126/science.abm4247. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 10064553. PMID 36007055. S2CID 251843620.