Archaeological culture: Tagarsk Culture


Dating: 8 b.c. - 1 b.c.
Region:South Siberia
Areal:Khakasia, Minusa, Achinsk-Mariinsk forest-steppe

Description: Monuments of Bainov phase of Tagansk culture: individual burial grounds of VIII-VII BC with the of stone slab enclosures; the monuments of Podgorny phase: individual and collective ritual inhumations under the heaps and the stone slab enclosures; the monuments of Saragash phase - individual and joint burials in crypts under the heaps of earth and stone slab enclosures; the monuments of Tesinsk phase with the collective burials in crypts under the heaps of earth in the stone slab encloses. The crypts were burns during the Saragash and Tesinsk phases. Tagarsk culture boasts the settlements, hill-forts and petroglyths and also drawings on stelae. The completed set of the first three phases embraces bronze arms, decorations, household utensils and ceramicware. Tesinsk phase represents iron objects.