FINDS OF ANIMAL STYLE ABOUT CONTACTS OF THE CAUCASIAN AND THRACIAN POPULATION IN THE EARLY IRON AGE

Some of animal objects of Caucasus have likeness feature with military objects of Thracians world Early Iron Age. This is evidence about general Near East source. Yet there are feature typical only for objects population of Caucasus and Thracians. It connected about cultural contacts between population Thracians and population Caucasus at middle of 1 millennium B.C.

Caucasus, art of «animal style», Koban culture, Thracians, early Iron Age