Yamnaya culture
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The Yamnaya, or Yamna, culture, also known as the Pit Grave culture or Ochre Grave culture, is a late Copper Age to early Bronze Age archaeological culture of the region between the Southern Bug, Dnie
Largest expansion of the Yamnaya culture. Modified from c. 3500 origins of Usatovo culture; 3300 origins of Yamna; c. 3300–3200 expansion of Yamnaya across the Pontic-Caspian steppe; c. 2700 end of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, and transformation of Yamnaya into Corded Ware in the contact zone east of the Carpathian mountains; 3100–2600 Yamnaya expansion into the Danube Valley.
Yamnaya culture grave, Volgograd Oblast
Sredny Stog culture (c. 4500–3500 BC)
Corded Ware culture
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The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 2900 BC and 2300 BC, thus from the Late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.:14
Corded Ware pottery in the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Berlin). c. 2500 BC
According to Allentoft (2015), the Sintashta culture probably derived at least partially from the Corded Ware culture. Nordqvist and Heyd (2020) confirm this.
Corded Ware stone-axe in the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Berlin). c. 2800–2400 BC.