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To accompany and honour the deceased: the horses from the graves of the Pazyryk culture

Karyne Debue
Dunburee Batsukh
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Sacrificing horses and placing them in graves are standard elements of Scythian funerary practices and recent archaeological projects in Mongolia provide additional evidence of this. These sites complement earlier investigations carried out at the site of Berel’ in Kazakhstan. The descriptions of the age, gender, colour and form of sacrifice of these horses allow a better understanding of the criteria of choice, enable a better understanding of why they were selected and underline the primordial place these horses enjoyed during the funerary ceremonies.
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hal-03094439 , version 1 (25-01-2021)

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Sébastien Lepetz, Karyne Debue, Dunburee Batsukh. To accompany and honour the deceased: the horses from the graves of the Pazyryk culture. Pankova, Svetlana; Simpson, St John. Masters of the steppe: the impact of the Scythians and later nomad societies of Eurasia, Archaeopress, pp.227-247, 2020, 978-1-78969-647-9. ⟨hal-03094439⟩
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