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🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Iron Age Sarmatian (Prokhorovka culture) · Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Prokhorovka)
29 Sarmatian chief mounds (400–300 BCE)—26,000 gold appliqués and scale-armored elite on the Ural steppe.
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient village
Middle Bronze Age Sintashta (2100–1800 BCE) · Sintashta (Indo-Iranian, Andronovo predecessor)
Fortified Bronze Age proto-town (c.2100–1800 BCE, Sintashta culture, late Middle Bronze) — type-site for Sintashta–Petrovka–Arkaim 'Country of Towns' (20 fortified settlements).
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city
Early Andronovo / Sintashta · Sintashta (Indo-Iranian)
Sintashta fortified proto-city (c.2150–1650 BCE) — swastika-shaped double-ring settlement 170 m diameter, 60 houses sharing wall, metallurgical furnaces in each house (copper and bronze), two…
