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Andronovo culture

c. 2000–1150 BCE · 21st century BCE

The Andronovo culture is a group of related Bronze Age cultures that spread across the steppes of southern Siberia, Kazakhstan and western Central Asia from about 2000 to 1150 BCE. Its people herded cattle, sheep and horses, used spoke-wheeled chariots and mined copper and tin. Many scholars associate it with early speakers of Indo-Iranian languages and see it as ancestral to later steppe peoples such as the Saka.

Andronovo culture
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Andronovo culture. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/andronovo-culture
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