Inner Asia Mountain Corridor

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The '''Inner Asia Mountain Corridor''' (IAMC) was an ancient exchange route ranging from the Altai Mountains in Siberia to the [[Hindu Kush]] (present-day Pakistan), which took shape in the 3rd millennium BCE. The expansion of the Indo-European [[Andronovo culture]] towards the [[Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex|Bactria-Margiana Culture]] in the second century BCE too place along the IAMC, giving way to the [[Indo-Aryan migration]] into South Asia.

==Mountain Corridor==
The IAMC contributed to the development of mobile pastoralism in the 4th millennium BCE. 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. Bronze Age pastoralists also transmitted horse riding and bronze technology between Europe and China, but also into South Asia.

==Indo-European migrations==
In the fourth millennium BCE a mobile pastoralist culture emerged at the Earasian steppes. From the Pontic steppes (present-day Ukraine and Russia), the [[Indo-European]] [Yamna culture]] spread westwards toward Hungary; and north-west it developed into the [[Corded Ware culture]]. Eastward it developed into the [[Sintashta culture]], which further developed into the Andronovo culture. According to Narasimhan et al. (2018), the Andronovo-culure extended southwards via the IAMC, reaching into the [[Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex|Bactria-Margiana Culture]], from where Indo-European language and culture reached South Asia.

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[[Category:Nomadic groups in Eurasia]]

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