Archaeology
Sheep Bones Detected in Ancient Siberian Death Mask
Friday, April 17, 2020
NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA– According to a report in The Siberian Times, a team of scientists led by Natalia Polosmak of the Russian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography and Konstantin Kuper of the Institute of Nuclear Physics used fluoroscopy to analyze a head-shaped sculpture crafted by the Tagar culture more than 2,000 years earlier. The clay head, which resembles a young guy, was found amongst about 15 sets of cremated human remains in a Shestakovsky burial mound in eastern Siberia in1968 X-rays made from the artifact at the time revealed a small skull within the sculpture. Marks in the clay on the back of the head recommend it had been connected to a body, maybe made with the remainder of the individual’s remains, grass, leather, and birch bark. The new research study, however, exposed that the skull within the sculpture belonged to a ram. Polosmak suggests the Tagar people may have produced a body to bury as a symbolic replacement if they were unable to recuperate the remains of the deceased. “This must have been the only method to make sure the after-death life of an individual who had not returned house,” she stated. Scientist Elga Vadetskaya suggested that a ram’s head may have been alternatived to the man’s stays if they had totally decayed prior to the intricate burial routine had actually been finished. To read about tattooed mummies unearthed in Siberia’s Altay Mountains, go to “ Ancient Tattoos: Iron Age Mummy“
