Botai

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
CountryKazakhstan
RegionNorth Kazakhstan Region
DistrictAiyrtau District
Population
 (2009)
 • Total84

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]

  1. ^ "База КАТО". Агентство Республики Казахстан по статистике. Archived from the original on 2013-12-25.
  2. ^ 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 (2018-04-06). "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.