Geographical range | North Caucasus in Europe |
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Period | Copper Age, Bronze Age |
Dates | c. 3500 – 3100 BCE |
Preceded by | Maykop culture |
Followed by | Yamnaya culture |
Novosvobodnaya culture (Russian: Новосвободненская культура Novosvobodnenskaya kultura, also Novosvobodna, Novosvobodnaja) is an archaeological culture of the Early Bronze Age in the foothills of the North Caucasus (3500-3100 BC). It is named after the megalithic tombs excavated in 1898 by Nikolai Veselovsky near the stanitsa Tsarskoy, now Novosvobodnaya in Adygea.