[5] Everything known about the Tasmola culture originates from the barrows (or kurgans) they built to bury their deceased.

[6] The bronze and golden wares show influences from the preceding Begazy–Dandybai culture.

[10] A genetic study published in Nature in May 2018 examined the remains of eight Sakas buried on the central steppe between ca.

They displayed a higher amount of southern Siberian hunter-gatherer admixture than other peoples of the Scythian cultures, including other Sakas.

[13] Another study from 2021 modeled them as roughly 50% Khövsgöl LBA, 45% WSH, and 5% BMAC-like, with three outlier sample ("Tasmola Birlik") displaying c. 70% additional Ancient Northeast Asian ancestry represented by the Neolithic Devil's Gate Cave specimen, suggesting them to be recent migrants from further East.