Pit Grave culture
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The Pit Grave culture, better known as the Yamnaya culture, was a late Copper Age–early Bronze Age pastoralist society of the Pontic–Caspian steppe often linked to the spread of Indo-European languages across Eurasia.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological culture
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pastoralist society ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Pit-grave culture
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Yamna culture NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamnaya culture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ancestralTo |
Afanasievo culture (genetically and culturally related)
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Corded Ware culture (partly, genetically and culturally) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| archaeologistAssociated |
David W. Anthony
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Marija Gimbutas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | early use of wagons ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheory | Steppe hypothesis of Indo-European origins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialCustom |
pit graves under kurgan mounds
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single and multiple burials ⓘ supine inhumations ⓘ use of red ochre on bodies ⓘ |
| chronologicalPhase |
early Bronze Age
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late Copper Age ⓘ |
| coreArea | north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea ⓘ |
| domesticatedAnimal |
cattle
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goats ⓘ horses ⓘ sheep ⓘ |
| economyType | pastoralism ⓘ |
| geneticProfile | high proportion of steppe ancestry ⓘ |
| graveGoods |
animal offerings
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copper or bronze ornaments ⓘ flint tools ⓘ stone battle-axes ⓘ |
| housingType | temporary camps and seasonal settlements ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
expansion into eastern and central Europe
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expansion toward the Balkans and the Danube region ⓘ expansion toward the Caucasus and Central Asia ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Moldova
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Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ Ukraine NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ western Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Pontic–Caspian steppe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| materialCulture |
cord-impressed pottery
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early metal objects ⓘ simple undecorated pottery ⓘ stone maces and axes ⓘ |
| mobilityPattern | semi-nomadic ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | named after its characteristic pit graves or burial pits ⓘ |
| significance | major vector for the spread of Indo-European languages ⓘ |
| socialOrganization |
clan-based groups
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patriarchal society ⓘ |
| subsistenceStrategy |
limited agriculture
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mobile herding of cattle ⓘ mobile herding of sheep and goats ⓘ |
| temporalRangeEnd | early 3rd millennium BCE ⓘ |
| temporalRangeStart | late 4th millennium BCE ⓘ |
| YChromosomeHaplogroup | R1b-M269 (frequent) ⓘ |
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