National Geographic USA – August 2019

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Three waves of
immigrants settled
prehistoric Europe.
The last, some 5,000
years ago, were the
Yamnaya, horse-
riding cattle herders
from Russia who
built imposing grave
mounds like this one
near Žabalj, Serbia.
DANUBIAN ROUTE OF YAMCULTURE PROJECT, NATIONAL NAYA
SCIENCE CENTER, POLAND

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Yamnaya artifacts

from their homeland

in Russia and Ukraine

include (1) a model,

found in a 2500 B.C.

grave, of a wheeled

wagon like those they

used to travel across the

steppes; (2) a bronze

knife blade; (3) a neck-

lace made of fish teeth;

(4) sheep ankle bones

used for games; (5) a

human skull painted

with ocher, a natural

clay pigment; and (6) a

four-foot-tall anthro-

pomorphic stela from

3000 B.C. featuring

axes and horses.

STATE HISTORICAL M(1-5); DNIPROPETROVSK NATIONAL USEUM, MOSCOW

HISTORICAL MUSEUM

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