Afanasievo

Afanasievo were an early (3300BC) bridge culture to china .

Afanasevans were descended from people who migrated c. 3700–3300 BCE across the Eurasian Steppe from the pre-Yamnaya Repin culture of the Don-Volga region.

Afanasievo were "genetically indistinguishable" from the Yamnaya culture. the expansion of the ancestors of the Afanasievo people into the Altai was carried out through "large-scale migrations and population displacements",[1] without admixture with local populations. the study underpinned the theory that the Afansievo people were Indo-Europeans, perhaps ancestors of the Tocharians.