1. Author information: (1)Adigei Republican Clinical Perinatal Center, Maikop

2. The Maykop culture was thus well-situated to exploit the trading possibilities with the central Ukraine area.

3. S., ‘Adigskie tantsi [Circassian Dances]’, in Sbornik statei po ètnografii Adigei [Collection of Articles on the Ethnography of Adigea], Maikop, 1975

4. Adygea (Adygea) – region and the Republic in southern Russia, a popular tourist site (Adygea on the map of Russia).The capital city Maikop

5. According to archaeologists, the wheel was invented around 4000 BCE probably independently and nearly simultaneously in Mesopotamia (in present-day Iraq), the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe.

6. Belorechensk deposit, Maykopsky District, Adygea, Russia : Located in the upper reaches of the small river Syuk, a right tributary of the Belaya river, 60 km to the south of the city of Maikop