Srubna Culture

It occupied the area along and above the north shore of the Black Sea from the Dnieper eastwards along the northern base of the Caucasus to the area abutting the north shore of the Caspian Sea , across the Volga to come up against the domain of the approximately contemporaneous and somewhat related Andronovo Culture .

The name comes from Ukrainian зруб ''zrub'', "timber framework", from the way graves were constructed. Animal parts were buried with the body.

The economy was mixed agriculture and livestock breeding. The historical Cimmerians have been suggested as descended from this culture.

The Srubna culture is succeeded by Scythians and Sarmatians in the 1st millennium BC, and by Khazar s and Kipchak s in the first millennium AD.

SOURCES

J. P. Mallory , "Srubna Culture", ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'', Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.

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