Andronovo culture
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The Andronovo culture is a collection of similar local Late Bronze Age cultures that flourished c. 2000–1150 BC, spanning from the southern Urals to the upper Yenisei River in central Siberia and west
Andronovo bronze axes.
Chariot model, Arkaim museum
Reconstruction of an Andronovo burial. Lisakovsk Museum
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic steppes and across Central Asia.
Karasuk culture
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The Karasuk culture describes a group of late Bronze Age societies who ranged from the Aral Sea to the upper Yenisei in the east and south to the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan in ca. 1500–800 BC.
Andronovo culture
…culture). Andronovo influence is thought to have reached as far as the Shang dynasty in China, including the introduction of chariots likely via the Karasuk variant of Andronovo and possibly other intermediary cultures. In the initial Sintashta-Petrovka phase, the Andronovo culture is limited to the northern…
Area of the Karasuk culture.
Shang dynasty curved bronze knives with animal pommel. 12th-11th century BCE. Such knives were the result of contacts with the northern people of the Mongolian steppe.
Karasuk bronze axes.
Karasuk vs Shang horned animal blades 13th-11th century BCE.