Afanasievo culture

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The Afanasievo culture was an early Bronze Age archaeological culture of pastoralists in the Altai–Sayan region of Central Asia, often associated with the eastward expansion of early Indo-European-speaking populations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European archaeological culture
archaeological culture
pastoralist culture
archaeologicalFeature earthen mounds
stone circles
associatedWith eastward expansion of early Indo-Europeans
associatedWithLanguageBranch Proto-Tocharian
linked to: Tocharian languages
associatedWithLanguageFamily Indo-European languages
burialCustom kurgan burial
single inhumation
stone cists
supine position
chronologicalPhase Early Bronze Age
country Mongolia
Russia
discoveredBy Sergei Teploukhov NERFINISHED
economyType pastoralism
followedBy Andronovo culture
Okunevo culture
linked to: Okunev culture
geneticAffinity Yamnaya culture
geneticComponent Western Steppe Herder ancestry
hasChronology one of the earliest Bronze Age cultures in Central Asia
influenced Okunevo culture
linked to: Okunev culture
locatedIn Altai–Sayan region
Central Asia
South Siberia
linked to: Southern Siberia
materialCulture bone tools
copper tools
cord-impressed pottery
stone tools
metalWorked arsenical bronze
copper
namedAfter Afanasievo village
period Early Bronze Age
Eneolithic
precededBy Yamnaya culture
region Altai Mountains
Minusinsk Basin
Upper Yenisei basin
linked to: Yenisei River basin
subsistence cattle herding
goat herding
horse herding
sheep herding
temporalRangeEnd c. 2500 BCE
temporalRangeStart c. 3300 BCE
usedAnimal horse
usedTechnology metallurgy

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Yamnaya culture influenced Afanasievo culture
Pit Grave culture ancestralTo Afanasievo culture (genetically and culturally related)
linked to: Afanasievo culture