Illustrations/Osprey General - Let's keep it ancient

Ancient Siberian hunter

Bronze Age

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During the Seima-Turbino phenomena, which saw rapid spread of new metalworking technology from Finland to Mongolia

Karasuk Culture. Early Indo-European migrations into Southern Siberia.

Pazyryk Culture

Pazyryk chieftain/noble. This image doesn't show it, but they used to attach the cut off jaws of their enemies to the horse's harness

More Pazyryk

Tattoos of a Pazyryk noble

Bronze age warrior of Ob forrest-steppe

Taiga warrior. Here, horses are replaced with skis.

To protect against deadly arrow wounds in close quarters taiga warfare, heavy lamellar armor is worn.

Still used by Siberian natives until recently

Kulai culture of Southern Ob. IV c. bc

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Heavy armored Kulai.

Hun noble. The elongated head is a symbol of prestige

More Hun

Heavily armoured Tashtyk warrior. Although initially Europoid, at the time the middle Yenisei area was being taken over by the mongoloid Yenisei Kyrgyz.

Tashtyk are also famous for their funerary masks

Kulai leader

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Early Turks

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Yenisei Kirgiz

Ostyak prince

That's it for today

A traditional Warrior of the Wassabian delegation of the Cherokee tribe