The Kulay culture was a culture of the Siberian forests during the 1st millennium BCE, in the northern taiga zone of the Ob River basin.[1] They used bronze and related basic iron technologies, and their designs were related to the animal style of the steppes.[2] Their pottery had sophisticated stamp decoration.[1]
^Bagashev, A. N.; Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch; Slepchenko, S. M.; Alekseeva, E. A.; Sleptsova, A. V.; Institute of the Problems of Northern Development, Siberian Branch (2017). "A craniological finding from a shrine at Bolshoy Log fortified settlement of the Kulay culture in Omsk". Vestnik Arheologii, Antropologii I Etnografii. 2 (37): 57. doi:10.20874/2071-0437-2017-37-2-057-071. ISSN2071-0437. Investigation of a skull from Bolshoy Log shrine showed that morphological features of the individual (a male of mature age) completely fits into the variability, typical of the very Kulay population, despite high individual variability. The morphological type of this male includes both Caucasoid and Mongoloid components.