Noua-Sabatinovka-Coslogeni complex explained

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]}

Characteristics

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

Origin

The Sabatinovka culture was formed on the basis of the Multi-Cordon Ware culture,^{[5] [6]} there is also the influence of the Srubnaya culture and Monteoru. 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.^[7] The relationship of the archaeological complex as part of the Srubnaya culture is a subject of debate.

Successors

Belozerka culture was the successor of the Sabatinovka culture.

Noua culture and Coslogeni was absorbed by Urnfield culture (Gava culture)

Ethnicity

Noua culture and Coslogeni were of Thracian origin, while Sabatinovka culture were of Iranian or Thracian origin.^[8]

Genetics

Haplogroups

Noua culture and Sabatinovka culture had a male haplogroup R1a, from female haplogroups were present J1, U8a1a1, U2e1b.^[9]

Autosomal DNA

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

• Prehistory of Transylvania
• Bronze Age in Romania
• Urnfield culture
• Gava culture

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023 . Bronze Age . The National Museum of History of Moldova.
2. Book: Boroffka, Nikolaus . The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age . 2013 . 978-0-19-957286-1 . Harding . Anthony . 888–890 . Chapter 47: Romania, Moldova, and Bulgaria . OUP Oxford . 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 . Fokkens . Harry.
3. Book: Parzinger, Hermann . https://books.google.com/books?id=hefUAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA404 . The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age . 2013 . 978-0-19-957286-1 . Harding . Anthony . Chapter 48: Ukraine and South Russia in the Bronze Age . OUP Oxford . 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. . Fokkens . Harry.
4. Web site: Noua culture . Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
5. Book: Kuzmina, Elena E. . Elena Efimovna Kuzmina . The Origin of the Indo-Iranians . . 2007 . 978-90-04-16054-5 . Mallory . J. P. . J. P. Mallory . 355–359.
6. Book: Kuzmina, Elena E. . Great Russian Encyclopedia . 2015 . 29 . Moscow . 173 . ru.
7. Book: Sava, E.N. . Great Russian Encyclopedia . 2013 . 23 . Moscow . 96–97 . ru.
8. Book: Sulimirski, T. . Tadeusz Sulimirski . 1985 . The Scyths . Gershevitch . I. . Ilya Gershevitch . . The Median and Achaemenian Periods . 2 . . . 152–183 . 978-1-139-05493-5.
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