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The Kulun-Atakh archeological culture of the Sakha [Yakut] people is described on the basis of burials dated to the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. This is a period before the arrival of Cossacks, when the Sakha were first practicing livestock herding in the vast territories of what is today the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Recent dating techniques combined with new discoveries have made possible multidisciplinary research on Sakha origins.
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