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Kokel Culture
According to one theory, the Xiongnu's migration west can be shown via the similarities of the post-Xiongnu Kokel culture (2nd to 4th century CE) in Tuva and that of a population known from the Tien Shan Mountains in modern Kirghizstan have sometimes been identified as an archaeological link between the various Hunnic groups. The graves in Kirghizstan the culture contain burial masks that cover the eyes and mouth in a similar style to those found in Xiongnu graves. However, found that the Kokel culture had to be understood as a largely local development lacking signs of a strict social hierarchy; its material culture differs substantially from that of the Xiongnu. Brosseder, moreover, argues that both the Kokel and the Tien Shan material culture are entirely unlike that found for the European Huns; only single burials in the Tien Shan contain objects resembling those of the European Huns.