Botai

Village in North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan

Botai Ботай
Village
Botai is located in Kazakhstan Botai Botai Location within Kazakhstan
Coordinates: 53°18′11′′N 67°38′42′′E / 53.303°N 67.645°E / 53.303; 67.645
Country	Kazakhstan
Region	North Kazakhstan Region
District	Aiyrtau District
Population (2009)
• Total	84

Botai (Kazakh: Ботай, Botai) is a village in Aiyrtau District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. Its KATO code is 593246200.^[1]

The village gives its name to a nearby archaeological site, the type site of the Botai culture, which dates to the Eneolithic period (c. 3500 BCE) and has produced some of the earliest evidence for the domestication of the horse.^[2]

References

^ "База КАТО". Агентство Республики Казахстан по статистике. Archived from the original on 2013年12月25日.
^ Gaunitz, Charleen; Fages, Antoine; Hanghøj, Kristian; Albrechtsen, Anders; Khan, Naveed; Schubert, Mikkel; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Owens, Ivy J.; Felkel, Sabine; Bignon-Lau, Olivier; Damgaard, Peter de Barros (2018年04月06日). "Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses". Science. 360 (6384): 111–114. Bibcode:2018Sci...360..111G. doi:10.1126/science.aao3297 . hdl:10871/31710 . ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 29472442.

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