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{{Infobox archaeological culture
|name        = Shilikty
|map         = {{Continental Asia in 500 BCE|center|{{center|Location of Chilikti ([[File:Basic red dot.png|5px]]),<ref name="Pan"/> with contemporary cultures in the 6th century BCE}}|{{Annotation|0|0|[[File:Continental Asia date mask.png|300px]]}}{{location map~ |Continental Asia |lat=43.549697|N |long=78.283366|E |label=|position=top|label_size=80|mark=Basic red dot.png|marksize=5}}||none}}
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|region      = [[South Siberia]]
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|dates       = 7-6th centuries BCE
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|majorsites  = {{Coord|43.549697|N|78.283366|E|display=title, inline}}
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| precededby  = [[Karasuk culture]]
| followedby  = [[Aldy-Bel culture]], [[Pazyryk culture]], [[Tagar culture]]}}
{{Saka kurgans}}
'''Shilikty''' (Ru: Шиликты курганы), formerly '''Chilikti''', also more precisely '''Baigetobe Kurgans''' (Ru: Курганы Байгетобе) in Shilikty Valley,<ref name="Pan"/> is an [[archaeological site]] in eastern [[Kazakhstan]], located in the [[Chilik (river)|Chilik river]] basin. At this site, numerous  8th-6th century BCE Early [[Saka]] [[kurgans]] were found.<ref name="Pan"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhumatayev |first1=Rinat |title=Royal Mound Baygetobe from the Burial Ground Shilikty |journal=International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering |date=1 January 2013 |url=https://www.academia.edu/45623946}}</ref> Carbon-14 dating suggests a more refined date of 730-690 BCE for the kurgans, and a broad contemporaneity with the [[Arzhan-2]] kurgan in Tuva.<ref name="Pan">{{cite journal |last1=Panyushkina |first1=Irina P |last2=Slyusarenko |first2=Igor Y |last3=Sala |first3=Renato |last4=Deom |first4=Jean-Marc |last5=Toleubayev |first5=Abdesh T |title=Calendar Age of the Baigetobe Kurgan from the Iron Age Saka Cemetery in Shilikty Valley, Kazakhstan |journal=Radiocarbon |date=March 2016 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=157–167 |doi=10.1017/RDC.2015.15 |bibcode=2016Radcb..58..157P |hdl=10150/628658 |s2cid=131703468 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-the-Shilikty-burial-site-in-the-Altai-Mountains-of-southeastern-Kazakhstan_fig2_289407150|hdl-access=free }}</ref> 

The Kurgans contained vast quantities of precious golden jewelry.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Francfort |first1=Henri-Paul |title=Images du combat contre le sanglier en Asie centrale (3 ème au 1 er millénaire av. J.-C.) |journal=Bulletin of the Asia Institute |date=2002 |volume=16 |page=118 |jstor=24049162 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24049162 |issn=0890-4464|quote=Ainsi des bractrées d'or à l'effigie du sanglier qui étaient fixées aux vêtements ont été découvertes dans les Kourganes du 6eme siècle de Chilikti (Kazakhstan oriental) et d'Arzhan-2 (Touva)}}</ref> Remains of a "golden man" (similar to the [[Issyk kurgan]] golden man) were found in 2003, with 4262 gold finds.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Noyanuly |first1=Noyanov Edyl |title=THE "GOLDEN PEOPLE" OF KAZAKHSTAN |journal=World Science |date=2016 |page=47 |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/the-golden-people-of-kazakhstan/viewer|quote="2003 Associate Professor of National University of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and Professor Gani lobster Abde§ Tulebaev in East -Kazakhstan near Zaisan in place Baygetobe "Chilikti-3" number 1, the mound of the "golden man" (4262 gold find) (Figure 4)"}}</ref> 

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File:26. Flying deer Chilikti (VII. - VI. B. C.) Kazakhstan.JPG|Flying deer, Chilikti (VII. - VI. B. C.) Kazakhstan.<ref>{{cite journal |title="Roter Altai, gib dein Echo!" Festschrift für Erika Taube zum 65. Geburtstag |date=2005 |page=37 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327393095}}</ref>
File:27. Eagle (Griffin) Chilikti (VII. - VI. B.C.) Kazakhstan.JPG|Eagle (Griffin), Chilikti (VII. - VI. B.C.) Kazakhstan.<ref>{{cite journal |title=International exhibition of original artifacts "Scythian gold" |date=2017 |page=93 |url=https://cultural.kz/slider/images/137.pdf}}</ref>
File:Saka kurgan dates.png|Saka kurgan dates, Shilikty being among the earliest.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Amir |first1=Saltanat |last2=Roberts |first2=Rebecca C. |title=The Saka 'Animal Style' in Context: Material, Technology, Form and Use |journal=Arts |date=2023 |volume=12 |page=23 |doi=10.3390/arts12010023 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Saka]]
[[Category:Scythia]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Kurgans]]
[[Category:Iranian archaeological sites]]
{{Central Asian history}}