Yamnaya Culture: The Most Powerful Culture You May Not Know About...
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Date: 11/02/2024

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

Chapters:
0:00 The Yamnaya Culture 
3:01 Appearance and Genetics 
5:08 Genocide? 
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The Yamnaya Culture was instrumental in the spread of Indo-European 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 Pontic-Caspian 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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Ancient X chromosomes reveal contrasting sex bias in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian migrations https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1616392114 

Martin Trautmann et al. First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship. Sci. Adv.9, eade2451 (2023) - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade2451 

Yamnaya culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture#Sources 

Wilkin, S., Ventresca Miller, A., Fernandes, R. et al. Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions. Nature 598, 629–633 (2021). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03798-4#citeas 

Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/13155 

How ancient herders rewrote northern Europeans’ genetic story https://www.sciencenews.org/article/yamnaya-herders-dna-europeans-genetic-multiple-sclerosis 

2 - The Yamnaya Culture and the Invention of Nomadic Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/indoeuropean-puzzle-revisited/yamnaya-culture-and-the-invention-of-nomadic-pastoralism-in-the-eurasian-steppes/9C6CA3B54CDC8045A105B7084CB453F4 

Steppe migrant thugs pacified by Stone Age farming women https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170404084429.htm
 
Thousands of horsemen may have swept into Bronze Age Europe, transforming the local population https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-horsemen-may-have-swept-bronze-age-europe-transforming-local-population 

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