1891 E. Sellers tr. C. Schuchhardt iv. 134 In the year 1876, the pit graves filled with gold were opened.
1897 J. G. Frazer Pref. The pit-graves with their treasures on the acropolis of Mycenae.
1989 J. P. Mallory vii. 211 The last cultural entity which may putatively be assigned a Proto-Indo-European date, is the Yamnaya (Pit-grave) culture.