Ancient Europe Srubnaya Culture 1800 1200 Bc The srubnaya culture is named for its use of timber constructions within its burial pits. its cemeteries consisted of five to ten kurgans. burials included the skulls and forelegs of animals and ritual hearths. stone cists were occasionally employed. [3] srubnaya settlements consisted of semi subterranean and two roomed houses. The sundial belonged to the srubna or srubnaya culture, a late bronze age society. it is believed that the sundial was placed on top of the grave to mark the final resting place of a young man sacrificed or otherwise marked as a messenger to the gods or ancestors. credit: archaeoastronomical research center at southern federal university.
Ancient Europe Srubnaya Culture 1800 1200 Bc The srubna culture may represent the southward expansion of the abashevo and sintashta petrovka cultures (both carrying predominantly r1a z93 male lineages), who are linked to the proto indo iranian people. this would have occured soon after the invention of the spoke wheeled horse chariots used for war c. 2000 bce in the the sintashta petrovka. Uniformly chopped dog bones from krasnosamarskoe. courtesy david anthony . for adolescent boys of the late bronze age srubnaya culture in the russian steppes north of the caspian sea, becoming a. The excavated srubnaya culture structure at krasnosamarskoe was a building 8 × 12 m in preserved dimensions, sectioned and partly destroyed by erosion from a man made lake that flooded the western half of the site, probably inundating the principal residential structure (fig. 2). The srubnaya alakulskaya individuals, originating from a site of cultural dualism in the forest steppe of the trans volga region, were genetically similar to the previously published srubnaya and andronovo individuals from the pontic kazakh steppe (3, 9) and to the european bronze age groups, including individuals of the corded ware, unetice.
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