Bulan-Koba culture

Bulan-Koba Culture
Geographical rangeAltai Mountains
Dates2nd century BCE to 5th century CE
Major sitesSary-Bel, Ust-Edigen, Bulan-Koba
Preceded byPazyryk culture
Followed byFirst Turkic Khaganate, Kok-Pash culture

The Bulan-Koba culture (2nd century BCE to 5th century CE) is an archaeological culture in the Altai Mountains which replaced the Pazyryk culture.[1] The time period of this culture occurs in the so-called Huno-Sarmatian period in Russian archaeology (2nd century BC to 5th century AD).[2] The bearers of this culture lived during the time of Xiongnu Empire, Xianbei state and Rouran Khaganate. this culture was replaced by Turkic burial traditions in Altai [3]

  1. ^ Konstantinov et al. 2018.
  2. ^ Konstantinov et al. 2018, page 13.
  3. ^ Konstantinov et al. 2018, page 9 :"The tradition of erecting of the Bulan-Koba type monuments preserved up to the early Middle Ages, i.e. before the Türkic time.".