Botai (, ''Botai'') is a village in

Aiyrtau District Aiyrtau (, ) is a district of North Kazakhstan Region in northern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is Saumalkol village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town wi ...

North Kazakhstan Region North Kazakhstan Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan, with a population of 522,171. Its capital is Petropavl, with a population of 221,907 people. It is the only region of Kazakhstan in which ethnic Kazakhs don't make up a majority. History ...

, Kazakhstan. Its KATO code is 593246200. The village gives its name to a nearby archaeological site, the

type site In archaeology, a type site (American English) or type-site (British English) is the site used to define a particular archaeological culture or other typological unit, which is often named after it. For example, discoveries at La Tène and H ...

of the

Botai culture The Botai culture is an archaeological culture (c. 3700–3100 BC) of prehistoric Central Asia, northern Central Asia. It was named after the settlement of Botai in today's northern Kazakhstan. The Botai culture has two other large s ...

, which dates to the

Eneolithic The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as st ...

period ( 3500 BCE) and has produced some of the earliest evidence for the

domestication of the horse It is not entirely clear how, when or where the domestication of the horse took place. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BCE, these were wild horses and were probably hunted for meat. The clearest evidence o ...

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Populated places in North Kazakhstan Region {{NorthKazakhstanRegion-geo-stub