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    The Pazyryk burials are a number of Scythian (Saka) Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south...
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  • tomb mounds of Scythian culture in Ukraine. The type site are the Pazyryk burials of the Ukok Plateau. Many artifacts and human remains have been found...
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    BC, discovered in 1993 in a kurgan belonging to one of the Pazyryk burials, from the Pazyryk culture in the Republic of Altai, Russia. It was among the...
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  • Pazyryk may refer to: Pazyryk Valley, a valley of Ukok Plateau, Siberia The Iron Age Pazyryk burials found there The wider Pazyryk culture, the archaeological...
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    Prominent archaeological remains of the Sakas include Arzhan, Tunnug, the Pazyryk burials, the Issyk kurgan, Saka Kurgan tombs, the Barrows of Tasmola and possibly...
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    Ukok Plateau (redirect from Pazyryk valley)
    Times")(Moscow and Leningrad, 1953) translated as Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron Age Horsemen, M.W. Thompson, tr. (University of California...
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    human interaction. Another example occurred in 300 B.C. in Pazyryk known as the Pazyryk burials where ten horses were buried alongside a human male, the...
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  • perhaps explains the curious antlered headdresses found on horses buried at Pazyryk (illustration at the top of this article). In Slavic fairytales, Golden-horned...
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    from the Ukraine to the Altai, particularly at Issyk in Kazakhstan... at Pazyryk... and Ak-Alakha" Harmatta, János (1992). "Languages and Literature in...
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    finds have been uncovered up to recent times. A major find are the Pazyryk burials, which were discovered on the Ukok Plateau in the 1940s. The finds...
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  • is an archaeological culture in the Altai Mountains which replaced the Pazyryk culture. The time period of this culture occurs in the so-called Huno-Sarmatian...
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  • coexisted with the Bulan-Koba culture. Contrary to the Europoid groups such as Pazyryk and Bulan-Koba culture, the Kok-Pash skeletal remains exhibit pronounced...
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    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
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  • marking the corners. Burials from the early Tagar period are characterized as single burials. In the later Tagar period, collective burials become more common...
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    much of central Asia, including the Altai Mountains, the site of the Pazyryk burials of the Ukok Plateau. By the late 3rd century the Xiongnu monarch Touman...
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    with craft workshops and Greek pottery prominent in the ruins. The Pazyryk burials (east of Scythia proper) are especially important because the frozen...
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    a felt shabrack adorned with animal motifs. These were located in Pazyryk burials finds. These saddles, found in the Ukok Plateau, Siberia were dated...
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    Ware culture. The earliest known chariots have been found in Sintashta burials, and the culture is considered a strong candidate for the origin of the...
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    India, dated to 1500 BC. The Siberian Ice Maiden, discovered in the Pazyryk burials, was found clad in a long crimson-and-white striped woolen skirt, with...
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  • containing remains of cannabis leaves and fruits, with one of the Pazyryk burials containing a pot, inside of which were cannabis fruits, as well as...
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    the Tashtyk burials: 1st century BC-1st century CE, 1st-2nd century CE. From the 1990s, new proposals were made dating the Tashtyk burials to the 3rd–4th...
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    site on the upper Ural River, noted for its chariot burials and kurgans containing horse burials, is considered the type site of the Sintashta culture...
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    civilization Mesoamerica 700 BC – AD 700 Pazyryk culture Central Asia 600–300 BC Scythians, Saka, Pazyryk burials Aldy-Bel culture Central Asia 600–300 BC...
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    Nearby Saka cultures were the Tagar Culture of the Minusinsk Basin, and the Pazyryk Culture in the Altai Mountains. To the east was the Slab-grave culture...
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    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
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    kurgans in Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but also known from Sauromations burials as in tumulus no. 3 of the Onaibulak graveyard, tumulus no. 1 and 2 of...
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    him, and around the edges of the burial twenty-two horses buried in pairs. Horse burials are part of the Pazyryk burials, where lavishly decked-out horses...
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    archaeologist who discovered and excavated the most celebrated of Scythian burials, Pazyryk in Siberia. Rudenko was a follower of Paul Broca's "French School"...
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    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
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    Southern Russia Sintashta Arzhan kurgan Pazyryk burials Salbyk kurgan Filippovka kurgans Western China Bulayïq Kucha Kizil Caves Kizilgaha caves Kumtura...
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