Editing Saka (section)

===Shilikty/ Baigetobe kurgan ({{circa|700 BC}})===
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Shilikty is an archaeological site in eastern [[Kazakhstan]] with numerous 8-6th century BC Early Saka [[kurgans]].<ref name="Pan"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zhumatayev |first1=Rinat |title=Royal Mound Baygetobe from the Burial Ground Shilikty |journal=International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering |date=1 January 2013 |url=https://www.academia.edu/45623946}}</ref> Carbon-14 dating suggests date of 730-690 BC for the kurgans, and a broad contemporaneity with the [[Arzhan-2]] kurgan in Tuva.<ref name="Pan">{{cite journal |last1=Panyushkina |first1=Irina P |last2=Slyusarenko |first2=Igor Y |last3=Sala |first3=Renato |last4=Deom |first4=Jean-Marc |last5=Toleubayev |first5=Abdesh T |title=Calendar Age of the Baigetobe Kurgan from the Iron Age Saka Cemetery in Shilikty Valley, Kazakhstan |journal=Radiocarbon |date=March 2016 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=157–167 |doi=10.1017/RDC.2015.15 |bibcode=2016Radcb..58..157P |hdl=10150/628658 |s2cid=131703468 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Location-of-the-Shilikty-burial-site-in-the-Altai-Mountains-of-southeastern-Kazakhstan_fig2_289407150|hdl-access=free }}</ref>

The Kurgans contained vast quantities of precious golden jewelry.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Francfort |first1=Henri-Paul |title=Images du combat contre le sanglier en Asie centrale (3 ème au 1 er millénaire av. J.-C.) |journal=Bulletin of the Asia Institute |date=2002 |volume=16 |page=118 |jstor=24049162 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24049162 |issn=0890-4464|quote=Ainsi des bractrées d'or à l'effigie du sanglier qui étaient fixées aux vêtements ont été découvertes dans les Kourganes du 6eme siècle de Chilikti (Kazakhstan oriental) et d'Arzhan-2 (Touva)}}</ref> Remains of a "golden man" (similar to the [[Issyk kurgan]] golden man) were found in 2003, with 4262 gold finds.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Noyanuly |first1=Noyanov Edyl |title=THE "GOLDEN PEOPLE" OF KAZAKHSTAN |journal=World Science |date=2016 |page=47 |url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/the-golden-people-of-kazakhstan/viewer|quote="2003 Associate Professor of National University of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and Professor Gani lobster Abde§ Tulebaev in East -Kazakhstan near Zaisan in place Baygetobe "Chilikti-3" number 1, the mound of the "golden man" (4262 gold find) (Figure 4)"}}</ref>