Serovo culture

The Serovo culture was a Neolithic culture that existed in the 3rd millennium BCE, primarily around Lake Baikal in Siberia. This culture is characterized by thinner pottery decorated with dentate stamping, boss, pit, and net impressions. Their stone tools were more regularly formed, and they created reinforced bows with bone backing and stone fish effigies.1

Evidence suggests a marked increase in population during the Serovo period, with settlements covering large areas and including storage pits for fish. The rich equipping of women's graves may indicate a degree of equality within Serovo communities. Serovo people are believed to have migrated into the steppe and desert regions of Central Asia and Inner Mongolia.1