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Tagssaka
38 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka Shilikty southern overhang (650–580 BCE) · Saka southern Shilikty granite spur
3 rock-shelter kurgans beneath 12 m granite overhang: talus gneiss chamber 5.8 m spall mound with mirror 18 cm 610 BCE.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka (Arzhan–Shilikty 800–700 BCE) — Shilikty middle terrace · Saka of eastern Kazakhstan (Mayemer–Shilikty)
68 m middle terrace royal 730 BCE: 13 horse western compartment and 432 eagle-griffin plaques including stag 22 cm.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Iron Age to Early Modern · Saka (Scythian), Dzungar Oirat Mongol, Kazakh
Ili River south bank continuation of 17th-century Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist carvings with Saka animal style underneath.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Saka, 600–400 BCE) · Saka of Semirechye (Issyk–Besshatyr, eastern Saka)
31-mound Saka royal necropolis (600–400 BCE) — Ili River's 'Five Tents' with 105-m royal mound and log house.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Early Iron Age (Arzhan-Chertomlyk) · Arzhan (Early Scythian / Saka Royal)
Second terrace north of Uyuk River (950 m, 52°03′N 93°51′E) in the Tuva Valley of the Kings, complementing Arzhan 1 (9th c BCE) and Arzhan 2 (7th c BCE) on south terrace and Tunnug 1 (9th c) centre.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka (Tiglaxaus vs Saka Tigraxauda) · Saka (Saka Tigraxauda) royal
Besshatyr south row: 6 royal kurgans (52–78 m) 500 m south of northern royal row, Altyn-Emel.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka Tigraxauda peak · Saka Tigraxauda royal
Boralday Royal 15: 92-m triple-circle Saka mound with 180 gold appliqués, park core.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Saka (480–320 BCE) · Saka
Southwest corridor 5 km southwest of Boralday Park toward Kapchagay Reservoir (760 m) with 7 mounds 20–48 m diam.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka (Uygarak) to Sauromatian · Lower Syr Darya Sakas (Uygarak culture)
Inkardarya delta type-site: 70 low mounds (8-32 m) with standing-stag plaques spanning 300 years.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju
Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka (7th–6th c. BCE) · Early Saka (Shilikty facies)
Shilikty north: 5 early royal kurgans (62 m) 2.2 km north of Golden Ridge, Zaisan valley 820 m.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Early Saka, Tasmola culture, 8th–5th c BCE) · Tasmola (early Saka, Central Kazakhstan)
Tasmola royal dromos kurgan (760–520 BCE) 45 m — eponymous early Saka mound with 200 gold plaques.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to early nomadic (~2000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Andronovo, Karasuk, Saka and Turkic nomadic
Arid gorge in the Chu-Ili massif preserving five major groups with over 5,000 petroglyphs, famed for anthropomorphic sun-headed figures up to 80 cm tall with rayed haloes.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka to Wusun Transition · Saka–Wusun
Zhetytobe south: 6 adobe-ring Saka kurgans 3 km south of Seven Hills core, Turkestan Ridge.
