Having examined the Early-Scythian monuments of the Kuban area and compared them with Proto-Meotian monuments, we are able to confirm an old conclusion made by A. A. Iessen: "the culture of the Early-Scythian Kelermes kurgans ... developed in a structured fashion based on the culture of the preceding period" (Iessen, 1954, S. 129). However, this does not contradict the idea of the existence of a "center of Early-Scythian culture" (Galanina, 1997)...