The Yamnaya culture [a] or the Yamna culture, [b] also known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture, is a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region …

May 9, 2024 · Recent findings shared at a conference in Budapest reveal the Yamnaya's origins with new clarity. Emerging from an ancestral population in the steppe during the fourth …

The people of the Yamnaya culture lived primarily as nomads under a chiefdom system and used wheeled carts and wagons to get around and manage large herds of animals.

More than 5,000 years ago a nomadic group of shepherds rode out of the steppes of eastern Europe to conquer the rest of the continent. The group, today known as the Yamna or Pit …

Jun 6, 2019 · Yamnaya culture tomb. (XVodolazx / CC BY-SA 3.0) The Yamnaya were also one of the first Bronze Age cultures in Europe. Their use of bronze and copper may have given …

May 13, 2020 · They possibly invented the wheel, they may have been the first to domesticate and ride horses, and they invented 4-wheeled, ox-drawn axeled wagons that enabled them to …

The Yamna and Yamna-derived and related people had a profound influence on social structure, economy, language, and the belief systems of the people of Europe as well as large swaths of …

One key technological innovation made all this possible: the widespread acceptance of the transport complex of wheel and wagon, allowing herders to enter and exploit the deep …

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The interpretation is usually built from the possible crucial advantages that the Yamna way of life could propose: horseback riding, wheeled wagons, advanced metalworking, etc.