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Yamnaya Culture: The Most Powerful Culture You May Not Know About

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0:00 The Yamnaya Culture
3:01 Appearance and Genetics
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The Yamnaya Culture was instrumental in the spread of IndoEuropean languages and Steppe ancestry across Eurasia, but what do we know about this culture, who were the Yamnaya people, what did they look like, how important was the horse in their expansion, and did they commit a form of genocide against the ancient people of Eurasia?

The Yamnaya culture, which is also known as the Pit Grave culture, existed from around 3300 – 2600 BC in the PonticCaspian steppe. It was discovered in the early 1900s near the Donets River by a Russian archaeologist, earning the name Yamnaya because of the way they buried their dead. In fact, Yamnaya is a Russian term that means 'related to pits'. They buried their dead in Kurgans, a type of Tumulus. Yamnaya culture.

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Thousands of horsemen may have swept into Bronze Age Europe, transforming the local population https://www.science.org/content/artic...

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