kurgan

A type of tumulus or barrow characteristic of a culture located on the steppes of southern Russia about 5000 BC and later spreading to the Danube, northern Europe, and northern Iran from around 3500 BC.

The culture that produced these tumuli or barrows.

A member of the people or peoples sharing this culture. The earliest Kurgans are considered by some to be speakers of Proto-Indo-European.

A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.