The Abashevo culture (Russian: Абашевская культура, romanized: Abashevskaya kul'tura) is a late Middle Bronze Age archaeological culture, ca. 2200–1850 BC,[1] found in the valleys of the middle Volga and Kama River north of the Samara bend and into the southern Ural Mountains. It receives its name from the village of Abashevo in Chuvashia.
Tracing its origins in the Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture, an eastern offshoot of the Corded Ware culture of Central Europe, the Abashevo culture is notable for its metallurgical activity and evidence for the use of chariots in its end phase.[2][3] It eventually came to absorb the Volosovo culture. The Abashevo culture is often viewed as pre-Indo-Iranian-speaking or Proto-Indo-Iranian-speaking. It played a major role in the development of the Sintashta culture and Srubnaya culture.[4]
^Grigoriev, Stanislav, (2022). "Cultural genesis and ethnic processes in Central and Eastern Europe in the 3rd millennium bc: Yamnaya, Corded Ware, Fatyanovo and Abashevo cultures", in: Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology No. 9.3/2022, pp. 43-84, pp. 66, 68: "...radiocarbon dates (2200–2000 BC for the Middle Volga Abashevo and 2200–2150 BC for the BB/EBA transition in Central Europe), synchronizing it with the cultures of the Unětice circle; and the proto-Unětice phase 'Reinecke A0' dated from 2300–2200 BC, preceded the Abashevo culture...and a more careful approach allows us to place [Abashevo culture]'s end ca. 1944–1823 BC."
^Chechushkov, Igor V.; Epimakhov, Andrei V. (2018). "Eurasian Steppe Chariots and Social Complexity During the Bronze Age". Journal of World Prehistory. 31 (4): 435–483. doi:10.1007/s10963-018-9124-0. S2CID 254743380.
^Allentoft, ME (June 11, 2015). "Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia (Supplementary Information)". Nature. 522 (7555): 167–172. Bibcode:2015Natur.522..167A. doi:10.1038/nature14507. PMID 26062507. S2CID 4399103. The Sintashta Culture, located in the Trans-Urals, represents the earliest, fully-developed, chariot-using Bronze Age culture... West of the Urals, stretching through the forest-steppe zone into Eastern Europe we find a related sister culture, called the Abashevo Culture, which also relied on chariots.
^Anthony 2007, pp. 382, 410: "Abashevo, the easternmost of the Russian forest-zone cultures that were descended from Corded Ware ceramic traditions played an important role in the origin of Sintashta." (p.382) "early Srubnaya was a direct outgrowth from Potapovka and Abashevo, the same circle as Sintashta, and nearly the same date." (p.410)
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