Tagar culture

Tagar culture
Location of the Tagar culture (site of Tagar) within the Saka realm (), and contemporary Asian polities c. -325
Geographical rangeSouth Central Siberia
PeriodBronze Age
Datesca. 800–168 BC
Preceded byPazyryk culture, Arzhan culture, Karasuk culture
Followed byTesinsky culture, Tashtyk culture

The Tagar culture[a] was a Bronze Age Saka archeological culture which flourished between the 8th and 1st centuries BC in South Siberia (Republic of Khakassia,[1] southern part of Krasnoyarsk Territory, eastern part of Kemerovo Province). The culture was named after an island in the Yenisei River opposite Minusinsk. The civilization was one of the largest centres of bronze-smelting in ancient Eurasia.


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  1. ^ Pilipenko, Aleksandr S. (20 September 2018). "Maternal genetic features of the Iron Age Tagar population from Southern Siberia (1st millennium BC)". PLOS ONE. 13 (9): e0204062. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1304062P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204062. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6147448. PMID 30235269.