Karasuk culture

archaeology

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Iron Age art

  • Mongol shaman
    In Central Asian arts: Neolithic and Metal Age cultures

    …the Iron and historical age—the Karasuk culture was located in the Minusinsk Basin, on the Yenisey River and on the upper reaches of the Ob River. Its creators must have been in touch with East Asia, for certain bronze objects, notably elbow-shaped knives, are related to those used between the…

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Northern European and Asian civilization

  • La Roche aux Fées
    In Stone Age: European cultures

    Through this immigration the so-called Karasuk culture originated and spread its influences farther to western Siberia and Russian Turkistan. Trade relations extended to central Russia. Exchange with the centres of the East Asian metallurgy introduced a new character of material culture (daggers and knives terminating in animal sculptures, series of…

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