Is the Indo-European 'Grave' culture Yamna near Anatolia etymologically related to the Vedic God of Death, Yama

by TheBeautifulMayawati

Sorry for being so specific.. I want to know if there's a link, because it seems so obvious, yet is unmentioned on the net.

thesouth1

No, it is not. The name Yamna was given by the archeologists which discovered the culture. They were Russians and named it in Russian: "yamnaya", which means "pitt-grave", after the burial sites that typified this culture and distinguished it from the otherwise similar neighboring "catacomb" (which is again a reference to the burial rites) culture . Now , the right question would be if the russian word yamnaya shares its etymology with the Vedic Yama - yes, it does.