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In
the period from late 4th millennium B.C. to the beginning
of the last quarter of the 3d millennium B.C. the population
of Yamnaya culture inhabited the territory of South Fore-Urals.
It's the most eastern group of an enormous community of nomad
cattle-breeding tribes that inhabited all the steppe of Eastern
Europe. Bearers of Yamnaya culture were the first nomads developing
steppe territories of the South Urals and adjacent regions
as well as the first metallurgists who started developing
the Kargalinskiy copper-ore deposit.
Sources of complex economy were traced on the territory of
Fore-Urals on the sites of Neolith and Eneolith. Bright original
cultures characterized by the high level of complex economy
were singled out there. A burial ritual, richly ornamented
clay pottery, stone and copper tools, different decorations
for clothes, remnants of wooden vehicles and other findings
characterize Eneolith culture of Fore-Urals as a basis for
following cultures of the Bronze Age connected with ethno
genesis of early Indo Europeans. The first period of their
development is presented by Yamnaya culture.
Key
words: Yamnaya culture, Early Bronze Age
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