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Seima-Turbino phenomenon

2300 BC – 1700 BC
CultureAsia

A pan-Eurasian pattern of Bronze Age burial sites sharing a common repertoire of bronze weapons and tools (not a settled territorial culture), attested from the Altai Mountains -- its likely homeland -- across Siberia and Central Asia and as far afield as Fennoscandia, Mongolia, Northeast China, the Russian Far East, Korea, and Japan. Associated with highly mobile nomadic warrior-metalworkers who pioneered tin-bronze casting in the Sayan-Altai region.

The phenomenon dissipated as its associated groups and metalworking traditions were absorbed into successor steppe cultures (e.g. the Andronovo horizon).

Borders in 2300 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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