Together with Soviet archaeologists, she was able to document the Caspian Steppes homeland of what has been variously dubbed the Battle - Axe
Culture, the Corded
Wear Culture, or, Gimbutas» preference, the Kurgan
Culture, so called from the type of burial its people accorded their elites, the chariot - driving, horse - riding
warriors who overran the farm communities of Europe beginning sometime in the fifth millennium b.c..