Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Asian
6. Siberian (culture or style)

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the Neolithic culture established in the slopes of the Afanasyevskaya Mountains from the 2nd millennium BCE. Sites have revealed tombs marked with stone circles symbolizing the Sun God, later ones took the form of barrows or large mounds. Pottery in earlier graves consisted of elongated, spherical vessels with herringbone patterns, while later pottery was flat-bottomed.