Ancient community of southern Siberia
52°04′18″N 93°37′55″E / 52.071606°N 93.631836°E / 52.071606; 93.631836
Early Iron Age Southern Siberian genetic ancestries. The Slab-grave people are uniformly of Ancient Northeast Asian (ANA, ) origin, while Saka populations to the west combined Sintashta , BMAC and Baikal _EBA ancestry (itself largely derived from Ancient Northeast Asian (ANA, ~80%), with a small admixture of Ancient North Eurasian (ANE, ~20%)).
The Sagly-Bazhy culture or Sagly/Uyuk culture , also known as Chandman culture in Mongolia (Ulaangom cemetery), refers to the Saka culture of the Sayan Mountains , in modern-day Tuva Republic .[ 2] It is the last stage of the Uyuk culture .
This period of Scythian culture covers a period from the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century BCE,[ 2] and follows the Arzhan culture (8th century BCE), and the Aldy-Bel culture (7th-6th century BCE) in the same location.[ 2] These Scythian cultures would ultimately be replaced by the Xiongnu Empire and the Kokel Culture .[ 2]
Nearby Saka cultures were the Tagar Culture of the Minusinsk Basin , as well as the Pazyryk Culture (ca. 500–200 BCE) in the Altai Mountains and the Saka culture (ca. 900–200 BCE), to which the Sagly-Bazy culture was strongly related.[ 3] [ 2] [ 4] To the east was the Slab-grave culture .
The Sagly-Bazhy culture stopped to exist in the 2nd century BCE as a result of Xiongnu invasions.[ 5]
^ a b c d e Glebova, A. B.; Chistyakov, K. V. (1 July 2016). "Landscape regularities of human colonization of the Tuva territory in the Scythian time (8th–3rd centuries B. C.)" . Geography and Natural Resources . 37 (3): 239. doi :10.1134/S1875372816030070 . ISSN 1875-371X . Uyuk culture [9, 12]. It derives its name from the Uyuk river, the valley of which, primarily within the Turan-Uyuk depression, is home to gigantic stone and earth kurgans with graves of tribal chiefs.
^ Jeong et al. 2020 , "the Sagly/Uyuk culture (ca. 500–200 BCE) of the Sayan mountains to the northwest (also known as the Sagly-Bazhy culture, or Chandman culture in Mongolia), who had strong cultural ties to the Pazyryk (ca. 500–200 BCE) and Saka (ca. 900–200 BCE) cultures of the Altai and eastern Kazakhstan".
^ Murphy, Eileen M. (2013). "Iron Age pastoral nomadism and agriculture in the eastern Eurasian steppe: Implications from dental palaeopathology and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes" . Journal of Archaeological Science .
^ "The Culture of Tuva in the Scythian Era (Hall 30)" . State Hermitage Museum.
^ Zhogova, Nina A.; Oleszczak, Łukasz; Michalczewski, Krzysztof; Pieńkos, Igor; Caspari, Gino (September 2023). "Identifying seasonal settlement sites and land use continuity in the prehistoric southern Siberian steppe – Zhelvak 5 (Tuva)" . Archaeological Research in Asia . 35 : 100467. doi :10.1016/j.ara.2023.100467 .
^ Matsumoto, Keita (1 January 2021). "A SURVEY OF BRONZE AND EARLY IRON AGE TOOLS AND WEAPONS FROM NORTHERN MONGOLIA" . Ancient cultures of Mongolia, Southern Siberia and Northern China : 332.