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Kurgan culture

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Seminomadic pastoralist culture that spread from the Russian:
steppes to Danubian Europe about 3500 Bc
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Catacomb culture

Kurgan culture, . By about 2300 bc the Kurgans arrived in the Aegean and Adriatic regions. The Kurgans buried their dead in deep shafts within artificial burial mounds, or barrows. The word kurgan means “barrow,” or “artificial mound,” in Turkic and Russian.

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