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Srubnaya culture

Srubnaya culture
Geographical rangePontic steppe
PeriodBronze Age
Datesca. 1900 BC – 1200 BC
Preceded byAbashevo culture, Multi-cordoned ware culture, Sintashta culture, Lola culture
Followed byNoua-Sabatinovka culture, Trzciniec culture, Belozerka culture, Bondarikha culture, Scythians, Sauromatians

The Srubnaya culture (Russian: Срубная культура, romanizedSrubnaya kul'tura, Ukrainian: Зрубна культура, romanizedZrubna kul'tura), also known as Timber-grave culture, was a Late Bronze Age 1900–1200 BC culture[1][2][3] in the eastern part of the Pontic–Caspian steppe. It is a successor of the Yamna culture, the Catacomb culture and the Poltavka culture. It is co-ordinate and probably closely related to the Andronovo culture, its eastern neighbor.[3] Whether the Srubnaya culture originated in the east, west, or was a local development, is disputed among archaeologists.[3]

The Srubnaya culture is generally associated with archaic Iranian-speakers.[3][4] The name comes from Russian сруб (srub), "timber framework", from the way graves were constructed.

  1. ^ Brown, Dorcas, and David Anthony, (2017). "Bronze Age Economy and Rituals at Krasnosamarskoe in the Russian Steppes", in: The Digital Archaeological Record: "...Particular attention focuses on the role of agriculture during the unusual episode of sedentary, settled pastoralism that spread across the Eurasian steppes with the Srubnaya and Andronovo cultures (1900-1200 BC)..."
  2. ^ Parpola, Asko, (2012). "Formation of the Indo-European and Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language families in the light of archaeology: Revised and integrated ‘total’ correlations", in Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, Helsinki, p. 140.
  3. ^ a b c d Mallory & Adams 1997, pp. 541–542.
  4. ^ Kuzmina 2007, p. 452.

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