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Dereivka ((ウクライナ語:Деріївка)) is an archaeological site located in the village of the same name in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dneiper. The site dates to ca. 4500—3500 BC and is associated with the Sredny Stog culture. This site is known primarily for its status as a site of early horse domestication due to a high percentage of horse bones found at the site. Radiocarbon dates of a horse skull showing evidence of bit wear, however, have shown the skull to have been an incursion of a skeleton from the early first millennium BCE into older strata. Since the rest of the site is reliably dated, the earlier of these conflicting radiocarbon dates is compatible with a timeframe several hundred years older. Of interest is some apparently equivocal evidence for ''fenced'' houses. Two cemeteries are associated, one from the earlier (neolithic) Dnieper-Donets culture and one from the aforementioned Sredny Stog culture, of the Copper Age. The habitation site included three dwellings and six hearths, each containing hundreds of animal bones. Of all the bones, approximately 75% came from horses, possibly exploited by the inhabitants only as food staple. As a part of the Sredny Stog complex, it is considered to be very early Indo-European, and probably, Proto-Indo-European, within the traditional context of the Kurgan hypothesis of Marija Gimbutas, though Sredny Stog is itself pre-kurgan as to burial rite. == See also == * Domestication of the horse 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dereivka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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