Early Eneolithic culture of the Samara Bend on the middle Volga, among the earliest copper-using cultures of the Pontic-Caspian steppe.
Succeeded in the same region by the Khvalynsk culture.
Covers Samara culture as the precursor to Khvalynsk and later steppe Eneolithic groups.
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