Yamnaya culture

GPTKB entity

Statements (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:artifacts
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Pit_Grave_culture
gptkb:Yamnaya_horizon
gptkbp:archaeologicalSite gptkb:Lower_Volga
gptkb:Dnieper_region
gptkb:Don_region
gptkb:Samara_region
gptkb:North_Caucasus
gptkbp:archaeologicalType kurgan burial
gptkbp:burialPractice burial mounds (kurgans)
supine position with bent knees
gptkbp:contribution significant to modern Europeans
gptkbp:culture gptkb:ceramics
stone battle-axes
wheeled vehicles
gptkbp:discoveredBy gptkb:Viktor_Gorodtsov
gptkbp:discoveredIn 1901
gptkbp:economy pastoralism
animal husbandry
gptkbp:geneticHaplogroup gptkb:R1a_(minor)
gptkb:R1b
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Yamnaya culture
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Unetice_culture
gptkb:Bell_Beaker_culture
gptkb:Corded_Ware_culture
gptkb:Srubnaya_culture
gptkb:European_Bronze_Age_cultures
gptkb:Sintashta_culture
gptkb:Andronovo_culture
gptkbp:languageFamily Proto-Indo-European (hypothetical)
gptkbp:notableFinds gptkb:Yamnaya_burials
wagon burials
animal remains in graves
gptkbp:notableFor spread of Indo-European languages
domestication of the horse
early use of wheeled vehicles
gptkbp:period c. 3300–2600 BCE
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Sredny_Stog_culture
gptkb:Khvalynsk_culture
gptkbp:region gptkb:Pontic–Caspian_steppe
gptkb:Eastern_Europe
gptkb:Western_Asia
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Kurgan_hypothesis
gptkb:Indo-European_migrations
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Corded_Ware_culture
gptkb:Catacomb_culture
gptkb:Afanasevo_culture
gptkb:Poltavka_culture
gptkb:Andronovo_culture
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Norse_mythology
gptkb:Pontic-Caspian_steppe
gptkb:Kurgan_hypothesis
gptkb:Proto-Indo-Europeans
gptkb:prehistoric_Europe
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5