Kokel_Culture
Kokel culture
Ancient community of southern Siberia
The Kokel Culture (1st-5th centuries CE) is a post-Xiongnu culture, from Southern Siberia, in the area of the modern Tuva Republic.[1] This culture is located temporally in the interval between the fall of the Xiongnu Empire (2nd century CE) and the rise of the First Turkic Khaganate (6th century CE).[2] In Russian archaeology, it is considered as belonging to the "Hunno-Sarmatian period" (2nd century BCE and 5th century CE).[3]
The Kokel culture has also been named "Syyn-Churek culture", or "Shurmak culture", based on the names of the sites of various archaeological discoveries.[4]
Carbon dates for the Kokel sites generally range from the 2nd to the 4th centuries CE.[5]
Kokel culture graves (2nd-4th century CE) tend to be found in conjunction with earlier graves of the Early Iron Age (9th century BCE-) Saka cultures, and the later graves of the Turkic period (5th century CE-).[6]
- Sites of the Kokel culture, just north of the frontier with Mongolia
- Kokel culture gold artifacts from Tunnug 1
- Arrowheads found in the skeletal remains of people of the Kokel culture
- Kokel culture iron and ceramic vessels