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Revision as of 20:11, 20 December 2004 by Adamsan (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Andronovo culture, is a name given by archaeologists to a group of Bronze Age communities who lived in western Siberia, Russia and parts of Kazakhstan during the second and first millennium BC. The culture is named after the village of Andronovo in the Enisei river valley, southern Siberia.
They mined deposits of copper ore in the Altai Mountains and lived in villages of as many as ten sunken log cabin houses measuring up to 30m by 60m in size. Burials were made in stone cists or stone enclosures with buried timber chambers.
Three sub cultures are distinguished: Petrovka-Sintashta (2000 -1600 B.C.), Alakul' and Fyedorovo (1500-1300.B.C.), and Sargary-Alexeevka (1200-1000 B.C.). In southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, the Andronovo culture was succeeded by the Karasuk culture.