The disappearance of the Nordic race in southern Siberia and Central Asia. Tagar Culture.
Tagar culture (VIII—III century BC)
Location: Minusinsk basin
- Named after the place name — Tagar island at the Yenisei river.
- The era of the Minusinsk Kurgan culture
- Caucasoid anthropological type , but there are also elements of the Mongoloid.
Haplogroup R1a
- The average cranial index: men - 75,3 ;
women - 75,5
Quotes.
M. Rykun:
"Craniological material from the burial ground of the Kamenka culture of Novotroitskoye-1"In the positive and negative positive sectors are concentrated series of skulls more Caucasoid appearance with a small proportion of Mongoloid admixture. It savromato-Sarmatian group of Volga and Ural regions, of a group of Cons (Tagar, tagaro-tashtyk, tashtyk). They are characterized by a combination of such features as mezocran medium skull euromarine, moderately profiled in a horizontal plane face. The origin of the Caucasoid type with the same combination of features associated primarily with carriers of the Andronov (Fedorov) culture of the bronze age."
"The bearers of the Tagar culture really belonged to the Caucasian race and that is quite legitimate attempts to associate them with the Dingling. Having also examined the skulls of previous eras, G. F. Debes came to the conclusion that the direct ancestors of the people of the Tagar culture was more ancient Caucasoid population of the Minusinsk hollow carrier Afanasevo culture."
G. F. Debets:
"Tagar skull really close "North pace", but explains it "is not a direct relationship with the Nordic type of European, (5/6) and stadial proximity of both types, relatively standing close to the nature of proto-European."
The main results of the anthropological study of the population of the Tagar:
1. A total morphological characteristics of a very large series of skulls of the Tagar.
2. Set the proximity of the Tagar type to the nature of proto-European Caucasian type, represented in the Minusinsk basin native Afanasevo and Andronovo cultures.
3. The hypothesis about the presence in the composition of the population of the Tagar small Mongoloid admixture and strengthening, accompanied by some gruzinizatsii closer to tashtygskoe time.
4. Proved the heterogeneity of the Tagar series, emerging when considering the medium in separate burial grounds.
Culture and everyday Life.
Tagarian lived in the ground dwellings of log construction. Inside the dwellings were heated by clay ovens and large hearths. Sometimes a village was surrounded by fortifications. The basis of the economic life of the Tagar society was hoe agriculture and animal husbandry. Mainly bred cattle and horses and goats and sheep. Using draft animal power, they were engaged in plow farming. To harvest hagarty used bronze sickles and reaping knives. The grain is rubbed on zernoterok.
To replace the Tagar culture came to tashtyk culture, which began to appear more Mongoloid features.