Middle Eneolithic culture of the middle Volga, notable for early evidence of horse domestication/ritual horse burial and elaborate cemeteries that prefigure later kurgan traditions.
Related steppe successor cultures (Repin, and ultimately Yamnaya) developed from or alongside it in the following millennium.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Khvalynsk Culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 4900 BC · 4500 BC.
Extensive treatment of Khvalynsk cemeteries and horse-domestication evidence.
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