The 2,500-Year-Old Frozen Woman Found In Siberia — And The Secrets Hidden Inside The Ice Maiden’s Tomb
The kurgan required the digging of a pit, the construction of the larch-wood chamber, the fabrication of the larch-wood coffin (specifically sized for the headdress).
The preparation of the grave goods — the food, the serving vessels, the horses in their harnesses.
The sacrifice of the six horses.
This was not a casual act.
The horses were valued economic assets, each one representing significant wealth.
Killing them for the burial was a statement — a demonstration of what this individual was worth in the economic and social terms of Pazyryk society.
The placement of everything precisely.
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