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.

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

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 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 ⓘ
northern Caucasus region ⓘ
linked to: North Caucasus

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

Eurasian Steppe → archaeologicalCulture → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Kurgan hypothesis → associatedWithArchaeologicalCulture → Kurgan culture ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya culture
Yamnaya culture → alsoKnownAs → Yamna culture ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya 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 ⓘ
Pit Grave culture → alternateName → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Pit Grave culture → alternateName → Yamna culture ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya culture
Kurgan archaeological horizon → alsoKnownAs → Kurgan culture ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya culture
Kurgan archaeological horizon → includes → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Kurgan archaeological horizon → partOf → Pontic–Caspian steppe cultural sequence ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya culture
Afanasievo culture → precededBy → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Afanasievo culture → geneticAffinity → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Poltavka culture → follows → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Poltavka culture → developedFrom → Yamnaya cultural horizon ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya culture
Poltavka culture → precededBy → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Poltavka culture → sharesTraitsWith → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Timber-grave culture → relatedTo → Yamnaya culture ⓘ
Maykop culture → influenced → Yamnaya horizon (debated) ⓘ
linked to: Yamnaya culture