Reconstruction of a late Scythian man from Minusinsk, Tashtyk culture.
Linked to Jiankun in Chinese sources and related to the Iranic Scythian Tagar.
After the Tashtyk collapse, waves of Shaz Turks arrived, followed later by Turkic Yenisei Kyrgyz who integrated the local Tashtyks pic.twitter.com/rufzMTs3uh

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