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DigsSite Name: Arkaim Alternative Name: Swastika City, Mandala City, Russian StonehengeCountry: Russia
NOTE: This site is 7.664 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Chelyabinsk Oblast Nearest Village: Alexandronvskiy
Latitude: 52.649215N Longitude: 59.571388E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Settlement in Russia
Arkaim is a settlement of the Sintashta-Petrovka culture, associated with Indo-Iranians in the Southern Urals steppe, Russia, just to the north from the Kazakhstani border. The site can be dated to between 1700 BCE and 2000 BCE. have been proposed. The site was surrounded by two roundish earthen fortification walls strengthened with timber frames and mud bricks of 160 metres in diameter. The wall was up to 5 metres thick and up to 5.5 metres tall and was surrounded with a 2 metre deep moat. There were 4 gates, the main one being to the west. There was a central agora, surrounded by two concentric circles of houses separated by a street. Up to 2500 people could have live in the 66 houses of Arkaim.
Arkaim is similar to the neighbouring settlement of Sintashta, where the earliest known chariot was excavated, but much better preserved .
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