Srubna culture

The Srubna or bar grave culture ( Ukrainian: Зрубна культура, Russian: Срубная культура ) was a Late Bronze Age culture of the 20th to 12th century BC. It is a successor to the Yamna culture, the culture and the Katakombengrab Abaschewo culture.

Had the Srubna culture their range approximately along and above the northern shore of the Black Sea, the Dnieper River eastward along the northern edge of the Caucasus up to the north coast of the Caspian Sea, while the Volga yet border, to the adjacent, approximately simultaneous and related Andronovo culture.

The name is based on the Ukrainian word зруб ( srub ), with " wooden frame " or " timber frame" to translate the way the tombs of the time were constructed. Here were found in the burials and animal parts that were added to the graves. The carriers of the Srubna culture subsisted on agriculture and animal husbandry.

The Srubna culture was followed by the Scythians and Sarmatians in the first millennium BC, the first Christian millennium, the Khazars and Kipchaks.

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