Uyuk culture

This period of Scythian culture covers a period from the 8th century BCE to the 2nd century BCE. To the east was the Slab-grave culture. The culture of Tuva in the Scythian era is presented in Hall 30 of the State Hermitage Museum. It stopped to exist in the 2nd century BCE as a result of Xiongnu invasions. File:Аржаан - 2.JPG|Arzhan 2 kurgan (7th-6th centuries BC, associated with the Aldy-Bel culture). File:Arzhan animal ring.jpg|Curled-up feline animal from Arzhan-1, circa 800 BCE. File:Arzhan deer.jpg|"Animal style" deer of the Arzhan culture, (7-6th century BC) Tuva. File:6. Pectorale burial mound Arzhan (VIII. - VII. B. C.) Tuva.JPG|Pectoral plate, from burial mound Arzhan (7-6th century BC) Tuva. File:8. Akinak (dagger) bural mound Arzhan (VIII.-VII. B.C.) Tuva.JPG|Akinak (dagger) burial mound Arzhan culture (7-6th century BC), Tuva. File:Arzhaan-2 gold bracelet.jpg|Arzhan-2 gold bracelet, Tuva National Museum. ==Genetics==

cultures: they combined in almost equal parts Western Eurasian (Sintashta, ) with Ancient Northeast Asian (Baikal EBA, ) ancestry, with a smaller Iranian contribution (BMAC, ). A 2020 study analyzed the DNA of Chandman fossils (late Uyuk culture), and described them as a mixed Eurasian population, with 50% of their ancestry being derived from the West Eurasian Sintashta culture, and an additional 43% from an East Eurasian population from Lake Baikal (Baikal EBA), Mongolia. Around 7% of their ancestry was related to the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex population of Central Asia, which is closely related to modern-day populations of the Iranian plateau. A study of the relationship between ethnicity and social status in the Xiongnu Empire suggested that the ancestry of high status individuals among the Xiongnu essentially derived from the Eastern Eurasian Slab Grave culture, while retainers of comparatively lower status had high genetic heterogeneity, representing influxes from the many parts of the Xiongnu Empire, and included a large proportion of Chandman-related individuals. ==References==