Tracing the origin of the east-west population admixture in the Altai region (Central Asia). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 A recent discovery of Iron Age burials (Pazyryk culture) in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia may shed light on the mode and tempo of the generation of the current genetic east-west population admixture in Central Asia. Studies on ancient mitochondrial DNA
Mercedes González-Ruiz +8 more
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Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) 87Sr/86Sr isotope data from scythian Iron age barrows in Altai, Russia [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2020 This paper reports LA-ICP-MS 87Sr/86Sr isotopic data collected from archaeological human remains uncovered in Manzherok region, Altai Republic, Russian Federation (“Mobility of nomads in central Asia: chronology and 87Sr/86Sr isotope evidence from the ...
Dalia A. Pokutta +4 more
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Pottery vessels from a collective burial in the mound of the Pazyryk Culture (Northern Altai) [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022 In one of the barrows examined in 2007 at the site of Choburak-II (the territory of the Northern Altai), an intrusive, and not quite ordinary, a collective burial of people was found.
Tishkin A.A. +3 more
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Burials of Pazyryk Culture: Social Differentiations
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Specialists dealing with the Pazyryk culture keep posing questions about its social structure. Traditionally, scholars ― with due account of outer parameters of kurgans, depths and areas of graves, numbers of buried horses, quantities and
Maria A. Ochir-Goryaeva
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A Summary of Studies of the Pazyryk Culture by Chinese Scholars
Поволжская археологияThis article is divided into two parts and examines Pazyryk culture from the perspective of Chinese scholars. The first part includes the translation and publication of foreign language works, which can be divided into two phases: government-led (period ...
Mu Jinshan
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Археология евразийских степей, 2023 The article presents paleoanthropological materials from the early period of the functioning of the Berel burial mound Pazyryk culture. The monument is located in Altai (Republic of Kazakhstan).
Egor P. Kitov
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A Distinct Form of Socio-Political and Economic Organization in the Pazyryk Culture
ArtsThe Pazyryk Culture, situated in the Altai Mountains of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, flourished for a relatively short period: 5th–3rd centuries BCE.
Karen S. Rubinson, Katheryn M. Linduff
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A chronology of the Scythian antiquities of Eurasia based on new archaeological and C-14 data [PDF]
, 2001 The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data.
Alekseev, A.Y. +13 more
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Deer or Horses with Antlers? Wooden Figures Adorning Herders in the Altai
Arts, 2023 Among the burials of horse herders who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE Altai Mountains of South Siberia were some that contained small wooden figures of four-legged hoofed animals that represent horses, deer, or hybrid creatures.
Karen S. Rubinson, Katheryn M. Linduff
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Magic-ritual functions of the musical culture of the Altai people
Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2022 The unique musical culture of the Altai people is largely based on traditional folk music. National musical instruments have sacred, magical functions when communicating with the spirits of nature — this fact is reflected in folklore works and folk ...
T. M. Sadalova
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