Definition of "kurgan" []

• A type of tumulus or barrow characteristic of a culture located on the steppes of southern Russia about 5000 B.C. and later spreading to the Danube, northern Europe, and northern Iran from around 3500 B.C. (noun)
• The culture that produced these tumuli or barrows. (noun)
• A member of the people or peoples sharing this culture. The earliest Kurgans are considered by some to be speakers of Proto-Indo-European. (noun)

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• "The word kurgan means "barrow" or "artificial mound" in Turkic and Russian."
• "January 11th, 2007 at 4: 56 pm it will never compare to the origianal. adrian paul is cool and all but chris lamburt and sean conor ruled and the kurgan was awsome and all the queen music. for its day highlander 1 ruled!"
• "Though the site had been looted in antiquity, many artifacts survived, including those found within a single burial mound known as kurgan 1."