Uyuk culture

Uyuk culture

-325 SAKAS Korgantas YUEZHI Sargat Goro- khovo Sha- jing Subeshi Slab-grave culture DONGHU SABEANS Ordos culture Pazyryk Tagar Chandman Sagly JIN Dian culture MACEDONIAN EMPIRE NANDA EMPIRE ZHOU DYNASTY MEROË Scythians Sauro- matians Massagetae Dahae class=notpageimage| Uyuk Culture (here the Sagly-Bazhy culture phase) and contemporary cultures and polities circa 325 BCE
Geographical range	South Siberia
Dates	8th to 2nd century BCE
Preceded by	Karasuk culture,
Followed by	Xiongnu Empire, Kokel Culture

Early Iron Age Southern Siberian genetic ancestries. The Slab-grave people are uniformly of Ancient Northeast Asian origin, while Saka populations to the west, including the Uyuk Culture, combined Sintashta, BMAC and ancient Baikal ancestry.

The Uyuk culture refers to the Saka culture of the Turan-Uyuk depression around the Uyuk river, in modern-day Tuva Republic.

This period of Scythian culture covers a period from the 8th century BCE to the 2nd century BCE. The successive phases of the Uyuk culture are:

• the Arzhan culture (9th-8th century BCE)
• the Aldy-Bel culture (7th-6th century BCE)
• the Sagly-Bazhy culture (5th–3rd centuries BCE).

These Scythian cultures would ultimately be replaced by the Xiongnu Empire and later the Kokel Culture.

Nearby Saka cultures were the Tagar Culture of the Minusinsk Basin, and the Pazyryk Culture in the Altai mountains. To the east was the proto-Mongolic Slab-grave culture.

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  "Animal style" deer of the Arzhan culture, (8-7th century BC) Tuva.
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  Akinak (dagger) burial mound Arzhan culture (8-7th century BC), Tuva.