Yamnaya culture

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The Yamnaya culture was a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age pastoralist society of the Pontic–Caspian steppe, often linked to the spread of Indo-European languages and steppe ancestry across Europe and parts of Asia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Yamnaya culture canonical 7
Kurgan culture 1
Yamna culture 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bronze Age culture
archaeological culture
pastoralist society
alsoKnownAs Pit Grave culture
Yamnaya culture
surface form: Yamna culture
archaeologicalFeature burial inventories with pottery
burial inventories with weapons
stone stelae
associatedWith Indo-Europeans
surface form: Proto-Indo-European expansion

early Indo-European languages
steppe ancestry
burialCustom kurgan mounds
ochre-sprinkled burials
pit graves
supine inhumations
endTime c. 2600 BCE
geneticContributionTo Bronze Age Europeans
Central Asian populations
South Asian ethnic groups
surface form: South Asian populations
hasEconomicType mobile herding
pastoralism
hasSocialStructure pastoral chiefdoms
patriarchal society
influenced Afanasievo culture
Bell Beaker culture
Catacomb culture
Corded Ware culture
Poltavka culture
Sintashta culture
locatedIn Pontic–Caspian steppe
modern Ukraine
North Caucasus
surface form: northern Caucasus region

southern Russia
western Kazakhstan
mainSubsistence cattle herding
horse herding
sheep herding
partOf Kurgan archaeological horizon
researchField archaeogenetics
archaeology
historical linguistics
startTime c. 3300 BCE
temporalLocation early Bronze Age
late Copper Age
usedAnimal domestic horse
usedMaterial arsenical bronze
copper
usedTechnology wagons
wheeled vehicles

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eurasian Steppe archaeologicalCulture Yamnaya culture
Kurgan hypothesis associatedWithArchaeologicalCulture Yamnaya culture
this entity surface form: Kurgan culture
Yamnaya culture alsoKnownAs Yamnaya culture
this entity surface form: Yamna culture
Catacomb culture follows Yamnaya culture
Catacomb culture relatedTo Yamnaya culture
Sredny Stog culture followedBy Yamnaya culture
Sredny Stog culture hasInfluenceOn Yamnaya culture
Corded Ware culture linkedTo Yamnaya culture