yakut weapons?

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by chevalier

i know the yakuts where a horsed people, but i never knew if they ever had metal weapons or not.


does anyone have any representations of weaponry used by the yakuts, yukaghirs, oirats, ect.?


ive been curious for a while as to weather certain siberian peoples knew metallurgy and could fashion swords/knives, ect or if they just continued to rely on stone/wood/bone weapons up to the russian conquest era.

I see this one was not ever answered Chevalier. I am very curious about the research you have done on the Yakut, and how you have assumed that these or any other Siberian peoples were still living in the Stone Age by the time of Russian conquest in the 17th century.

Of course metallurgy was known by most of these indiginous people, but the type of weaponry would depend on which tribes, what period (a little more specific than pre Russian conquest). We have a search feature here which is at the top heading line, and enables you to search through previous threads and discussions. If you look under 'Siberia' a number of threads that note Siberian sabres will appear. Since the Yakuts are descended from not only Turkic tribes from the steppes and Altaic groups as well as indiginous groups from Siberia I think we can assume they may have in varying degree adopted similar weaponry as required.



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