Tashtyk culture

Tashtyk culture
Tashtyk culture funeral masks. The masks were often painted. Oglakhty necropolis, tomb 4, 3rd-4th century CE. Hermitage Museum.
Geographical rangeSouth Central Siberia
PeriodIron Age
Dates1 CE–400 CE
Preceded byTagar culture
Followed byYenisei Kyrgyz

The Tashtyk culture was a Late Iron Age archaeological culture that flourished in the Yenisei valley in Siberia from the 1st century CE to the 4th century CE. Located in the Minusinsk Depression, environs of modern Krasnoyarsk, eastern part of Kemerovo Oblast, it was preceded by the Tagar culture and the Tesinsky culture.