Andronovo
Proper noun
Meaning
Andronovo
(archaeology) A collection of similar local Bronze Age cultures that flourished circa 1800–1400 BCE in western Siberia and the west Asiatic steppe.
Examples
Andronovo From the Corded Ware culture the Indo-Europeans spread eastward again, forming the Andronovo culture.
Pál Lipták (1955) the Turanid type is a Caucasoid type with significant Mongoloid admixture, arising from the mixture of the Andronovo type of Europoid features and the Oriental (Mongoloid).
The earliest fully developed spoke-wheeled horse chariots are from the chariot burials of the Andronovo (Timber-Grave) sites of the Sintashta-Petrovka Proto-Indo-Iranian culture in modern Russia and Kazakhstan from around 2000 BC.