entity · arch_srsc1_srubnaya_horizon
Srubnaya archaeological horizon
Also known as: Srubna, Timber-grave culture, Srubnaya cultural-historical community
An archaeological umbrella for Late Bronze Age steppe assemblages characterized in part by timber-lined graves and related settlement and material traditions.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1800 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines or contextualizes classification
Radiocarbon Chronology of Monuments of the Berezhnovka-Maevka Srubnaya Culture near the Town of Ordzhonikidze — Ludmila A. Chernykh, Sergey V. Polin, Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko (2003)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - informs · defines or contextualizes classification
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia — Philip L. Kohl (2007)
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion
Research description
The label covers regional variants and changing systems across a wide area. It is not an ancient self-designation, a single ethnicity, or a fixed state.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not an ethnicity
A modern archaeological classification based on material patterns rather than a secure ancient self-identified people.
Why does this record have this property?
The record groups material, chronological, or regional evidence. No assignment of language, ancestry, ancient self-designation, or modern national continuity follows from the label alone.
- The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
supports assignment · Regional culture classification and cautions - The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
contextualizes · Mobility, interaction, and culture models
Evidence and sources
- contextualizes · defines or contextualizes classification
Radiocarbon Chronology of Monuments of the Berezhnovka-Maevka Srubnaya Culture near the Town of Ordzhonikidze — Ludmila A. Chernykh, Sergey V. Polin, Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko (2003)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_srubnaya_horizon.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion - contextualizes · defines or contextualizes classification
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia — Philip L. Kohl (2007)Source linked to entity record arch_srsc1_srubnaya_horizon.
Locator: Relevant chronology, regional synthesis, or assemblage discussion