Editing Pazyryk burials (section)

==Pazyryk culture==
{{main|Pazyryk culture}}
Rudenko initially assigned the neutral label [[Pazyryk culture]] for these nomads and dated them to the 5th century BCE; the dating has been revised for barrows 1-5 at Pazyryk, which are now considered to date to the 4th–3rd centuries BCE.<ref>See above, n. 2.</ref> The Pazyryk culture has since been connected to the [[Scythians]] whose similar tombs have been found across the steppes.  The Siberian [[animal style]] tattooing is characteristic of the Scythians. The artifacts show that these ancient Altai nomads had cultural and trading links to [[Central Asia]], [[China]] and the [[Near East]].<ref name="nomads">{{cite web
|url=http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_2_7.html
|title=Early Nomads of the Altaic Region
|publisher=The Hermitage
|access-date=2007-07-31
|archive-date=2007-06-22
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622035146/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_2_7.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> There is evidence that Pazyryk trade routes were vast and connected with large areas of [[Asia]] including [[India]], perhaps Pazyryk merchants largely trading in high quality horses.<ref name="nova"/>