and Kurumchi were entirely unrelated and found their ceramics dissimilar. Podgorbunsky did however consider the Sakha descendants from certain Turkic peoples. This was based upon Iron Age pottery fragments found in 1917 during archaeological work performed in the Transbaikal Oblast and Irkutsk Governorate. The Sakha style pottery was claimed to have existed across Baikalia, Transbaikalia, the Mongolian Steppe, and the Yenisey watershed. Alexey Okladnikov Okladnikov defended the hypothesis that the Kurumchi were the Sakha progenitors. The early 11th century C.E. was speculated to be when Mongolic peoples migrated to Lake Baikal. The displaced Kurumchi were forced to travel the Lena, eventually reaching the modern He further found similarities between Kurumchi and Sakha pottery traditions. Modern consensus In the 1990s Bair Dashibalov began a reexamination of the Kurumchi findings of Petri by using comparative analysis of other Siberian archaeological cultures. The Lake Khövsgöl pottery fragments were assessed as too incomplete to demonstrate Kurumchi origin. According to Petri the assorted Murin river valley artifacts were created by the Kurumchi no later than the 12th century C.E. Kurumchi stirrups are similar to generalized Eurasian-produced ones from the end of the 1st millennium C.E. In particular older stirrups are analogous to 8th-9th centuries C.E. Saltovo-Mayaki culture stirrups, while other stirrups are comparable to those utilized by the Mongolian Empire during the 13th-14th centuries C.E. Certain Kurumchi arrowheads are stylistically similar to findings from the 9th-10th century C.E. Yenisei Kirghiz, while others resemble ones produced by the Askizsky and Jurchens during the 11th-12th centuries C.E. Dashibalov concluded that the Murin river valley artifacts come from a wide chronological that ranges from the 9th-14th centuries C.E. This analysis have subsequently been accepted by some scholars. According to Vladimir Tishin the two spindle whorls with Old Turkic inscriptions were produced locally between the mid-9th to 12th centuries C.E. However their discovery outside of archaeological digs by non-professionals and poor documentation by Petri made their specific cultural origins impossible to categorize. Notes References Bibliography Books Articles Archaeological cultures of Northern Asia Early medieval archaeological cultures of Asia Archaeological cultures of Siberia Archaeological cultures in Russia Turkic archeological cultures History of Siberia Russian