KURGAN

Crossing Horizons

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Here is the first chapter of our adventure. Completely to be built and ordered. Nevertheless it is the very first chapter! And it concerns the so called KURGAN PEOPLE. We know that at the beginning of the IIId Millennium b.C. our ancestors, coming from the Volga river - where they settled around in 4000 b.C. (they were indo-european tribes) - moved from the steppes area surrounding the planes of the Black Sea (Kuban included) and following the course of the main rivers spread themselves all over Europe, melting  with the autoctones they met. Passing through the Danube valley they settled themselves in the Balkans (where they arrived around 1200 b.C.) reaching from this region also the carsic planes and so on arrived in Friuli too. The way they crossed is signed by the presence of important burial sites that archeologist called kurgan. They are little hills built in sacred areas with inside the evidences of the bodies and the weapons of their kings. One of the most famous kurgan all over Europe is just near Krasnodar, in Maicop, and it is considered one of the most important archeological areas in the world. Another one is just near Gemona, in Mereto di Tomba, where archeologists discovered in these years a lot of interesting traces of this culture.  We will work together one year long, up to july 2010, putting together our researches and materials and publishing them at the links "Friuli" and "Kuban", with the help of scientists from our universities (Krasnodar, Trieste and Udine). Our cultural exchanges in Gemona and in Krasnodar (summerschool included) will be the opportunity to explore the archeological sites and to speak to the archeologists working there. But already in the next days we will be able to present part of the materials that we organised for the scientifical "meeting 2008" that we hold in Krasnodar in last may 2008, and which can be considered the starting point of this our new research. Isn't it a wonderful opportunity to cross over our horizons?