The Yamna reused sacred spaces in the north Pontic Steppe

Dmytro Kiosak and colleagues published a new article examining a monumental structure in the North Pontic Steppe that was repurposed as a burial mound in the late fourth millennium BCE. The authors argue that this repurposing reflects a pattern of Yamna appropriation of ritual spaces, conceptualised as a ‘continuity of sacred spaces’.

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Svitlana Ivanova, Alexey G. Nikitin, Simon Radchenko, and Dmytro Kiosak, The continuity of sacred spaces in the North Pontic Steppe: a case study of the Revova Kurgan 3 (Ukraine), Antiquity (2026). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10292.