The Yamna (from Russian яма "pit") or pit grave culture is a prehistoric culture of the Bug/ Dniester/ Ural region, dating to the 36th– 23rd centuries BC. The culture was predominantly nomadic, with some agriculture practiced near rivers and a few hillforts. Domestication of the horse, cattle, sheep and goat, use of plough and carts is attested. Characteristic for the culture are the burials in pit graves with the dead body placed in a supine position with bent knees.
The Yamna culture is identified with the later Proto-Indo-Europeans in the KurganThis article is about Bronze Age burial mounds. See Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast for a Russian city of that name. Kurgan (a) is the Russian word (from Turkic) for a type of burial mound or barrow, heaped over a burial chamber, often of wood. In 1956 Marija Gimbu hypothesis of Marija GimbutasMarija Gimbutas (Vilnius, Lithuania January 23, 1921 Los Angeles February 2, 1994) researched the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe", a term she introduced, in works published between 1946 and 1971, that opened new views by combining tradi.
Indo-EuropeanIndo-European is originally a linguistic term, referring to the Indo-European language family. By extension, it became a collective name for cultures and religions associated with these languages. Hypothetically, these cultures arose from the expansion of
ArchaeologyArchaeology or archeology ( American English) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. The goal of archaeology is to sh
