The role of Tamga systems in the study of the ethnic history of nomadic tribes

Abstract

Any nation throughout history has its own distinctive symbols in beliefs, culture, customs, and tradi- tions that have been with them since ancient times. For some, it is represented by a battle cry, for others by a tamga, for a third by a special worldview, beliefs, as well as ideas and beliefs associated with color. And the study of each of them separately through a part of the history of the people, its ethnic history, territorial location, features of settlement and relations with neighboring people, interactions, etc. make it possible to obtain additional information on these problems.

Any tamga consists of signs caused by the perception of information in the history of mankind, in its nature. Such tamgas, in turn, are found on the territory of Kazakhstan. A distinctive feature of the tribe is that such tamgas initially performed the duties of defenders of the tribes, and then became their separate tamgas. In addition, tribal tamgas can provide quite important information about their ethnic structure and composition when studying the history of Turkic tribes and ethnic groups that have preserved a tribal and nomadic way of life. In the article, tamgas and signs were used as source material for the study of ethnic, political and other problems.

Key words: tamga, symbol, Turkic peoples, ethnonym, Central Asia.