kurgan
/koor-gahn, -gan/US // kʊərˈgɑn, -ˈgæn //UK // (Russian kurˈɡan) //
库尔干,库尔干人,库尔班,库尔干岛
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave and often containing grave vessels, weapons, and the bodies of horses as well as a single human body; originally in use in the Russian Steppes but later spreading into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the third millennium b.c.
Examples
From Mir we proceeded to the Kette Kurgan ('great fortress').
An occasional kurgan rising up here and there in the Steppe is the sole sign that it was once inhabited by a people.
These people buried their dead in barrows, or kurgans, and for this reason they have been called Kurgan people.
Sergi states that it varies from 65 to 81, but it seems likely that among his collection of kurgan skulls are some of other types.
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