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History of the World podcast

Vol 2 Ep 28a - The Yamnaya Culture

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 4 August 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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3400 - 2600 BCE - The Yamnaya Culture was a successful part of the wider Kurgan culture of the Pontic-Caspian Steppe. This Bronze Age culture influenced its neighbours and may have brought Bronze Age culture and modern European language to the European continent, as well as influencing the futures of Persia and India. (True first publish date - 1st May 2013)

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Volume 2 The Ancient World

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Episode 28 A, the Yamnaire Culture Oh, In episode 28 of volume 2, we spoke about Indo-European languages and we tentatively

1:28.6

concluded that there were a peoples who could be referred to as Proto-Indo-Europeans who lived on and around the

1:37.1

Eurasian step around 5,000 years ago. So the question is who exactly was living on the Eurasian step around 5,000 years ago

1:46.8

according to the archaeological record? The answer is the people belonging to the Yamnaire culture, also quite commonly referred to as the Yamna culture.

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In brief, it is commonly believed by historians that the peoples of the Yamnaire culture

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likely spoke a version of the Proto-Indo-European language,

2:08.5

an unknown theoretical language constructed by lingual experts tying common links between related and later ancient languages

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that we have certain knowledge of.

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We can expect during this exploration into the Yamna culture of the Eurasian step

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to discover peoples whose ranges were remarkably large due to the nature of their herding animals while remaining semi-nomadic, riding on horseback and expertly using wheeled wagons for transport.

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Vassili Garodzov was a Russian archaeologist born in the year 1860 and just after the turn of the 20th century he was excavating in the Don River Valley where he

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discovered over a hundred kurgans. A kurgan is the name of a burial mound, the likes of which are typically found in the modern

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