The Bronze City of “Seven Pits” discovered in Central Asia after 3,500 years

An extended ancient city has been found in Central Asia, shedding light on the history of industries and positions as “the most remarkable discovery of these archaeological sites in the region for decades,” according to the lead author of a new Interland report on the site.

The report, from researchers at the United Kingdom’s Durham University and University College London and Tazakhstan’s Toraighyrov University, provides the most complete picture so far that the “city of seven villages,” may have been similar to its end more than 3,500 years ago.

Located in the Kazakh Steppe, a vast grassland that covers Northern Kazakhstan and parts of Russia, Semiyku occupies 350 hectares and is currently the largest known extinction in that region, according to the report. Dating back to around 1600 BCE during the Bronze Age, this city was among the few production centers at that time and the first in the Kazakh Steppe that is now known as block production skills.

That is important to understand the early societies of the Steppe region, the researchers say, as the archaeological evidence of the well-organized metal of well-organized iron that such societies were not found in this area where the markarka made. It is an ancient city, called “Seven Valleys” because of its location overlooking many valleys, developed at a time when people can find people who start to build permanent or semi-permanent settlements.

Researchers previously thought that the Nominomadic people lived in the Kazakh steppe at that time. But what they discovered after years of semi-archaeological exploration shows that the site was not only a major metal producer but, possibly, an important post with trading potential. Its size, as well as the remains of its production, “highlight its potential importance to improve our understanding of regional settlement patterns, social and technological organization,” the researchers wrote in their report.

“This is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in the region for decades. SemiyArka changes the way we think about steppe societies,” said the author of Milja radivoevievied at University College London and that author, said a statement issued by the University. “It shows that mobile communities can create and sustain permanent settlements, which is the focus of a large field of potential research – a true ‘Urban Hub’ of the steppe.”

Investigators at Toraighyrov University initially identified SemiyArka in the early 2000s, but the city was not thoroughly investigated before now.

“I’ve been looking closely for years at the national funding of Kazakh research,” said Viktor Merz, of Toraighyrov University, who was a biennial recipient decades ago, “but this approval raised our understanding of this area.”