The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
Other finds have added evidence of more modest social levels and of different phases within the Pazyryk cultural sequence.
The Altai Mountains are also the site of earlier archaeological remains — Paleolithic through Bronze Age — that provide context for understanding how the Iron Age Pazyryk culture developed.
The long human history of the Altai region, visible in the cumulative archaeological record, is one of the most complete for any mountain region in the world.
The Ice Maiden As A Historical Argument
The Ice Maiden is not simply a historical artifact; she is a historical argument.