kurgan

Noun

kurgan (plural kurgans)

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

   • 2004: The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans. — Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture (Blackwell 2005, p. 41)

6 letters in word "kurgan": A G K N R U.

No anagrams for kurgan found in this word list.

Words found within kurgan:

ag an anu ar ark auk gan gar gau gaun gaur gnar gnu gran gu guan guar gun gunk gur gurn ka kagu kang karn knag knar knaur knur krang kuna na nag nark nu nur rag raku ran rang rank raun rug ruga run rung ug un ur urn

• Definitions:
• An English version of the Russia for tumulus. Soviet archeologists have done most of the work with Proto-Indo-Europeans and the kurgan is used by ...
• Kurgan (???????) is the Russian word (of Turkic origin korugan>shelter eng.) for tumulus, a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often of wood. ...
• Kurgan (???????) is the administrative center of Kurgan Oblast, Russia; one of the oldest cities in Siberia (geographical position: ). It was founded in 1553, then called Tsaryovo Gorodishche (), and acquired its present name in 1782. ...

• kurchatoviums ←
• kurchatovium ←
• kurbashing ←
• kurgan
• → kurgans
• → kuri
• → kuris