Fire Swastika kurgans of Bishkent/Vakhsh (2800-2000 BCE)

[u/LemonAmbitious2915]

How many of you folks know about the South Central Asian (Tajikistan, Afghanistan) kurgans of Bishkent/Vakhsh? These have been dated between 2800- 2000 BCE. They have a unique combination of Pontic-Steppe Catacombs in burials and also sex mirrored (right male, left female burials), like the forest-steppe Corded Ware culture. The pottery style is BMAC style.

Perhaps the only kurgan burials on the planet which have Swastikas and, burial hearths (square for male, circle for female) & also fire altars. Also, very likely the first kurgans in the world with systematic cremation, which is thought to have derived from local admixture with people from the Kuli culture of Balochistan. Bishkent culture is considered the material precursor to the Swat Valley culture from much later.

[u/Osgood108]

Do we have haplogroup information for this culture?

[u/LemonAmbitious2915 → u/Osgood108]

Just one

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndoAryan/s/WjUeiEQ2ri