The Inner Asian Mountain Corridor (IAMC) was an ancient exchange route in Inner Asia, ranging from the Altai Mountains in Central Asia to the Hindu Kush in South Asia (present-day Afghanistan and northern Pakistan), which took shape in the 3rd millennium BCE.[1][2]Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn The expansion of the Indo-European Andronovo culture towards the Bactria-Margiana Culture in the second millennium BCE took place along the IAMC, giving way to the Indo-Aryan migration into the Indian subcontinent.Template:Sfn
Mountain Corridor
The IAMC contributed to the development of mobile pastoralism in the 4th millennium BCE.[1][2]Template:Sfn Bronze Age mobile pastoralists acted as agents between Central Asian cultures and South Asian cultures via the IAMC, spreading domesticated wheats from South and East Asia to Inner Asia.[3]Template:Sfn Bronze Age pastoralists also transmitted horse riding and bronze technology between Europe and China, but also into the Indian subcontinent.Template:Sfn
Indo-European migrations
In the fourth millennium BCE a mobile pastoralist culture emerged at the Eurasian steppes.Template:Sfn From the Pontic–Caspian steppe (present-day Ukraine and Russia), the Indo-European Yamna culture spread westwards toward the Great Hungarian Plain; and north-west it developed into the Corded Ware culture.Template:Sfn Expanding eastward, Corded Ware eventually developed into the Sintashta culture, which further developed into the Andronovo culture. According to Narasimhan et al. (2018), the Andronovo-culture extended southwards via the IAMC, reaching into the Bactria-Margiana Culture, from where Indo-European language and culture reached the Indian subcontinent.Template:Sfn
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pastoralist landscapes and social interaction in bronze age Eurasia{{#if:Frachetti, Michael D.|, Frachetti, Michael D.}. University of California Press(2008). ISBN 978-0-520-25689-7
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Multiregional Emergence of Mobile Pastoralism and Nonuniform Institutional Complexity across Eurasia. Current Anthropology({Template:Date).
- ↑ Earliest direct evidence for broomcorn millet and wheat in the central Eurasian steppe region. Antiquity({Template:Date).
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