Editing Bronze Age (section)

==== Seima-Turbino phenomenon ====
{{Main|Seima-Turbino phenomenon}}
The [[Altai Mountains]], in what is now southern Russia and central [[Mongolia]], have been identified as the point of origin of a cultural enigma termed the [[Seima-Turbino Phenomenon]].<ref name="Keys2009">{{Cite journal |last=Keys |first=David |author-link=David Keys (author) |date=January 2009 |title=Scholars crack the code of an ancient enigma |journal=BBC History Magazine |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=9}}</ref> It is conjectured that changes in climate in this region {{circa|2000&nbsp;BC|lk=no}}E, and the ensuing ecological, economic, and political changes, triggered a rapid and massive migration westward into northeast Europe, eastward into China, and southward into Vietnam and Thailand<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=White |first1=Joyce |last2=Hamilton |first2=Elizabeth |year=2009 |title=The Transmission of Early Bronze Technology to Thailand: New Perspectives |journal=Journal of World Prehistory |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=357–397 |doi=10.1007/s10963-009-9029-z |s2cid=9400588}}</ref> across a frontier of some {{cvt|4000|mi|km|sigfig=1}}.<ref name="Keys2009" /> This migration took place in just five to six generations and led to peoples from Finland in the west to Thailand in the east employing the same metalworking technology and, in some areas, horse breeding and riding.<ref name="Keys2009" /> However, recent genetic testings of sites in south Siberia and [[Kazakhstan]] ([[Andronovo]] horizon) would rather support spreading of the bronze technology via [[Indo-European migrations]] eastwards, as this technology had been well known for quite a while in western regions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lalueza-Fox |first1=C. |last2=Sampietro |first2=M. L. |last3=Gilbert |first3=M. T. |last4=Castri |first4=L. |last5=Facchini |first5=F. |last6=Pettener |first6=D. |last7=Bertranpetit |first7=J. |year=2004 |title=Unravelling migrations in the steppe: Mitochondrial DNA sequences from ancient central Asians |journal=Proceedings. Biological Sciences |volume=271 |issue=1542 |pages=941–947 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2004.2698 |pmc=1691686 |pmid=15255049}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Keyser |first1=Christine |last2=Bouakaze |first2=Caroline |last3=Crubézy |first3=Eric |last4=Nikolaev |first4=Valery G. |last5=Montagnon |first5=Daniel |last6=Reis |first6=Tatiana |last7=Ludes |first7=Bertrand |year=2009 |title=Ancient DNA provides new insights into the history of south Siberian Kurgan people |journal=Human Genetics |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=395–410 |doi=10.1007/s00439-009-0683-0 |pmid=19449030 |s2cid=21347353}}</ref>

It is further conjectured that the same migrations spread the [[Uralic]] group of languages across Europe and Asia, with extant members of the family including [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Estonian language|Estonian]].<ref name="Keys2009" />