Semiyarka

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Semiyarka
Drone photograph of the archaeological site of Semiyarka, looking from the south-east to the north-west, taken in July 2018
Semiyarka is located in Continental Asia
Semiyarka
Semiyarka
Shown within Continental Asia
Semiyarka is located in Kazakhstan
Semiyarka
Semiyarka
Semiyarka (Kazakhstan)
Coordinates50°53′38″N 78°22′32″E / 50.894012°N 78.375433°E / 50.894012; 78.375433
Bronze Age
↑ Chalcolithic
Africa, Near East (c. 3300–1200 BC)
Egypt, Anatolia, Caucasus, Elam, Levant, Mesopotamia, Sistan, Canaan Late Bronze Age collapse
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Eurasia and Siberia (c. 2700–700 BC)
Poltavka culture, Abashevo culture, Sintashta culture, Andronovo culture, Mezhovskaya culture, Cherkaskul culture
Europe (c. 3200–900 BC)
Aegean (Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean), Caucasus, Catacomb culture, Srubnaya culture, Bell Beaker culture, Apennine culture, Terramare culture, Únětice culture, Tumulus culture, Urnfield culture, Proto-Villanovan culture, Hallstatt culture, Canegrate culture, Golasecca culture, Argaric culture, Atlantic Bronze Age, Bronze Age Britain, Nordic Bronze Age
Indian subcontinent (c. 3300–1200 BC)
Indus Valley Civilisation, Bronze Age India, Ochre Coloured Pottery, Cemetery H
Topics
Arsenical bronze, writing, literature, Sword, Chariot
↓ Iron Age

Semiyarka is a Late Bronze Age settlement in Abai Oblast in north-eastern Kazakhstan, which was occupied from around 1600 BCE.[1] It is connected to the Cherkaskul culture (1600–1250 BCE) and Alekseevka-Sargary culture (1500–1100 BCE), a subdivision of the Andronovo culture. The site includes monumental architecture, and evidence of pottery as well as tin-bronze production.[1][2] The copper and tin ores used for the production of the Semiyarka artifacts probably originated from the Altai Mountains in East Kazakhstan.[3]

Semiyarka may have been a "Bronze Age metropolis", and is one of the rare known sites of tin bronze production in the Eurasian steppe.[2]

  • Semiyarka map of features identified through geophysical prospection
    Semiyarka map of features identified through geophysical prospection
  • Semiyarka pottery sherds. Alekseevka-Sargary (upper four sherds) and Cherkaskul (lower four sherds) cultures
    Semiyarka pottery sherds. Alekseevka-Sargary (upper four sherds) and Cherkaskul (lower four sherds) cultures

Sources

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  • Radivojević, Miljana; Lawrence, Dan; Merz, Victor K.; Merz, Ilya V.; Demidkova, Elena; Woolston-Houshold, Mark; Villis, Richie; Brown, Peter J. (18 November 2025). "A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka's Bronze Age legacy". Antiquity: 1–9. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10244.
  • Nicioli, Taylor (18 November 2025). "Archaeologists may have uncovered a Bronze Age metropolis in Kazakhstan's steppe". CNN.

References

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  1. ^ a b Radivojević et al. 2025, p. 1.
  2. ^ a b Nicioli 2025.
  3. ^ Radivojević et al. 2025, p. 7.