Tashtyk culture

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Tashtyk culture
Minusinsk Depression
) and contemporary Asian polities c. 100
funeral masks. The masks were often painted. Oglakhty necropolis, tomb 4, 3rd-4th century CE. Hermitage Museum.[1][2][3][4]
[5]
Geographical rangeSouth Central Siberia
PeriodIron Age
Dates1 CE–400 CE
Preceded byTagar culture
Followed byYenisei Kyrgyz

The Tashtyk culture

Minusinsk Depression, environs of modern Krasnoyarsk, eastern part of Kemerovo Oblast, it was preceded by the Tagar culture and the Tesinsky culture.[6][7]

History

The Tashtyk culture was first surveyed by the Russian archaeologist

Yenisei Kirghiz around the 3rd century AD.[8] The Yenisei Kirghiz are often associated with the Tashtyk culture.[9]

Tashtyk settlements and hill-forts have been unearthed throughout the Yenisei region, particularly the

Chinese influence.[6]

During his excavations of the

St. Petersburg
).

Datation

Tashtyk culture exhibit (1st-4th century CE). Krasnoyarskiy Regional Museum

Oglakhty is considered as "the key site of stage I of the Tashtyk culture." From the early 20th century, various dates have been proposed for the Tashtyk burials: 1st century BC-1st century CE, 1st-2nd century CE. From the 1990s, new proposals were made dating the Tashtyk burials to the 3rd–4th centuries CE.

Kokel Culture have also been recorded nearby.[11]

  • Tashtyk culture mask
    Tashtyk culture mask
  • Tashtyk culture pottery
    Tashtyk culture pottery
  • Tashtyk culture daggers
    Tashtyk culture daggers

Genetics

Baikal
ancestry.

In 2009, a genetic study covering specimens from the Tashtyk culture was published in Human Genetics.[7] Six Tashtyk remains of 100–400 AD from Bogratsky region, Abakano-Pérévoz I, Khakassia were surveyed, of which 5 yielded genetic ancestry and pigmentation alleles.[7]

All specimens examined were determined to be female. Extractions of

SNPs.[7]

A full genome analysis on two Tashtyk mummies revealed high genetic affinity to the

Baikal_EBA).[12][13]

  • Tashtyk culture mask reconstruction
    Tashtyk culture mask reconstruction
  • Tashtyk culture mask, Khakassia National Museum.
    Tashtyk culture mask, Khakassia National Museum.
  • A funerary mask from Tashtyk in Moscow State Historical Museum.
    A funerary mask from Tashtyk in Moscow State Historical Museum.
  • More masks in Moscow
    More masks in Moscow
  • Later masks, dated to the 5th-6th century.
    Later masks, dated to the 5th-6th century.
  • Funerary masks excavated near Minusinsk, photographed in 1901.[14]
    Funerary masks excavated near Minusinsk, photographed in 1901.[14]

Notes

  1. ^ /tɑːʃˈtɪk/; Russian: Таштыкская культура

References

  1. ^ "Siberian Times".
  2. ISBN 978-0-12-809578-2
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-7112-5914-0
    .
  4. ^
    ISSN 0033-8222
    .
  5. ^ Pankova, Svetlana; Simpson, St John (1 January 2017). Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia. British Museum. pp. 344–345.
  6. ^
    Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica
    . Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  7. ^
    S2CID 21347353
    .
  8. ^ a b Grousset 1970, pp. 18–19
  9. ^ "Xipoliya Yanke Suo Jian Xiajiesi Monijiao" ("Siberian Rock Arts and Xiajiesi's Manicheism") 1998 Gansu Mingzu Yanjiu
  10. ^ Zharnikova, S. V. ARCHAIC ROOTS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN NORTH: Collection of scientific articles. WP IPGEB. p. 46.
  11. PMC 8284818
    .
  12. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1993191/v1
    . Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  13. ISSN 0092-8674
    .
  14. ^ Meakin, Annette M. B. (1901). A ribbon of iron. Westminster, A. Constable & co., ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. p. 105.

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