Bondarikhinskaya culture

The Bondarikhinskaya culture is an archaeological culture during the late Bronze Age (11th-9th centuries BCE) that replaced the Srubnaya culture. It was found from the left shore of the Dnepr to the upper and mid Seversky Donets, and it the east it reached the Don bassin and mid-Oka. The culture was identified in the 50s by V. A. Ilyinskaya. It is represented by both fortified and non-fortified settlement, grave fields, treasures and scattered finds. They lived in pit houses, semi-pit houses and houses on flat ground. The cemeteries are tumuli, and flat ground graves with cremated remains in urns or small pits.

The orange markers correspond to the culture.

It was followed by the Yukhnovskaya culture and the Gorodets culture.


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