Archaeological culture · c. 2100–1800 BCE (some give 2200–1900 BCE)

Sintashta culture

A Bronze Age culture of the steppe east of the southern Urals, in Russia and northern Kazakhstan. Its people lived in fortified settlements such as Sintashta and Arkaim, worked copper on a large scale, and buried their leaders with horses, weapons and the earliest known spoke-wheeled chariots.

Many scholars see it as the origin of the Indo-Iranian languages.

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On the map

2100–1800 BCE