A Late Bronze Age culture of the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe (Volga-Ural to Dnieper), successor to the Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures and contemporary with Andronovo further east.
Faded out as a distinct archaeological horizon by c. 1200 BC amid the wider Late Bronze Age steppe transition; regional successor cultures follow.
Covers Srubnaya as part of the Late Bronze Age steppe cultural sequence.