Siberia. Irrigation canals of the Tagar culture

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Recall in the article Another Chandar Plate? We have already informed our readers about the so-called "Creator's Map" - an amazing artifact, a three-dimensional map of the earth's surface, made by unknown technology on limestone slabs.

At the same time, the analysis of military specialists in cartography of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces showed that the map is really genuine, here is their conclusion:

At your request, the submitted materials were considered in order to identify the surface depicted on the stone slab, and work was carried out to study the archaeological find. On this issue, we report the following. On the surface of the slab, a relief is depicted, in general, corresponding to the southwestern spurs of the Bashkir upland with some displacement of the channels of the waterways of the indicated region.

In addition to the relief (including the bottom of the rivers, which modern civilization does not do even now), this map also depicts irrigation systems that are striking in their scale and complexity.

“… As we studied the slab, the riddles only increased. The map clearly shows the region's gigantic irrigation system - an engineering marvel. In addition to rivers, there are two systems of canals 500 meters wide, 12 dams 300-500 meters wide, up to 10 kilometers long and 3 kilometers deep each. Dams made it possible to turn the water in one direction or another, and more than a quadrillion cubic meters of land were moved to create them. Compared to them, the Volga-Don Canal on the modern relief may seem like a scratch …"

After reading the links from this small preface, information from the article below by the author under the nickname sibvedacquires even more interest for the thoughtful reader …

Siberia. Irrigation canals of the Tagar culture

I think not everyone knows yet that several thousand years ago (according to official data) peoples with the halo group R1a (data from the wiki) and belonging to the Auropeids lived on the territory of South, Central and Eastern Siberia. Many believe that people with European features, there in Siberia, appeared after Yermak's campaigns. Most people think about the local inhabitants of these territories: these are the Turkic and Mongoloid nomadic tribes, engaged in cattle breeding in those distant times and leading a collective lifestyle. But this is far from the case.

Earlier I posted an article Ancient Cultures of Siberia of the Caucasian anthropological typewhich contains only brief, but official data.

Reconstruction of the external appearance of the Andronovets. Kazakhstan II millennium BC The name comes from the village of Andronovo near Achinsk, where the first burials were discovered in 1914.

All this vast territory in the period from 4 thousand years ago was inhabited, as you will see below, not by the Turks and Mongoloids.

The European cultures of these territories have many names. Basically, they are tied to the names of the settlements where the burials, mounds and remnants of settlements were found. The scientific world also distinguishes such cultures:

Afanasyevskaya culture - South Siberian archaeological culture of the Bronze Age (III-II millennium BC). The culture got its name from the Afanasyevskaya mountain (near the village of Bateny in Khakassia), where in 1920 the first burial ground of this culture was investigated.

Okunev culture - South Siberian archaeological culture of nomadic pastoralists of the Bronze Age (II millennium BC), which replaced the Afanasyev culture. It was named after the Okunev ulus in the south of Khakassia, where in 1928 S. A. Teploukhov was the first to excavate a burial ground of this culture.

Karasuk culture - archaeological culture of the Bronze Age (late 2nd - early 1st millennium BC) in southern Siberia and Kazakhstan. Named after excavation of reference monuments on the Karasuk River in the Republic of Khakassia.

Tagar culture - archaeological culture of the Bronze Age (X-III centuries BC), named after the toponym - Tagarsky island on the river. Yenisei. The Tagar culture was replaced by the Tashtyk culture.

Tashtyk culture - the archaeological culture of Southern Siberia of the Iron Age (II century BC - V century AD), being in many respects the successor of the Tagar culture, is fundamentally different from it in the widespread use of iron.

Pazyryk culture - Archaeological culture of the Iron Age (VI-III centuries BC), reckoned to the "Scythian circle", the main finds of which were made in Altai Mountains. The carriers of this culture lived in the adjacent territories of Kazakhstan, the Altai Republic and Mongolia.

Perhaps there is no division in time among these cultures, and this is all one culture with approximately one time of existence. After all, it is known that this case is dated by the thickness of the cultural layers, and archaeologists attribute everything to the cultural layers: clay, soil, humus. And if they find cultural artifacts, then they try to bind them to similar ones, but in a different locality and territories, the age of which is no longer a question. They have no corrections for events that led to the appearance of clay: a possible flood, floods, etc.

Finding such items in burials, they attribute it to the time of the Scythians, because these artifacts are almost identical with Scythian gold, daggers.

Salbyk burial mound. Khakassia. Tagar culture. Archaeologists have completely excavated this mound, leaving only the outer fence of stones.

Its modern look

Burial mounds still preserved in the Khakass steppe

Those. and on the finds and on the mounds, one can find a cultural connection with the Scythian culture of the European part of Russia.

The following information was a discovery for me (thanks again to Sergey Izofatov). It turns out that the inhabitants of the Tagar culture were active in agricultural activities. This follows from the presence of channels that are still visible in our time:

Canals of the Tagarskaya culture of the Minusinsk depression

Official information:

And there is, in my opinion, false information that Genghis Khan's warriors trampled all the fields, turning them into pastures, and destroyed dams and sluices. We like to attribute all destruction to wars and conquests.

These are the only photos. There is no detailed information or anything else that could tell about the scale of the irrigation systems. But it is clear that if there are such systems, then the peoples who inhabited these territories could not be nomadic.