The Kurgans are so called because they left lots of cairns all over the
Ukraine. Robert Holdstock has some of them in one of his Mythago Wood
books. However there is no more certainty that they ever existed than in
the case of, say, the Beaker People. I think 'Kurgan' is a Scythian word.
If you want to depict the Pentans as nasty and brutish you could use the
Scythians as a reference point. Some ancient Greek geographer described
them as trouser wearing cannibals if I remember correctly and I think
they had a horse centered culture.
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