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====Central Asia====
The Iron Age began in [[Central Asia]] with the [[Saka]], an [[Eastern Iranian]] people who lived in present-day [[Xinjiang]], between the 10th and the 7th centuries&nbsp;BC, attested at sites like the cemetery at Chawuhukou.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Hall | first=Mark E. | title=Towards an absolute chronology for the Iron Age of Inner Asia | journal=Antiquity | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=71 | issue=274 | year=1997 | issn=0003-598X | doi=10.1017/s0003598x00085781 | pages=863–874}}</ref>

The [[Pazyryk culture]] is an Iron Age [[archaeological culture]] ({{Circa|6th–3rd centuries&nbsp;BC|lk=no}}) identified by excavated artifacts and mummified humans found in the Siberian [[permafrost]] in the [[Altai Mountains]].