2500 year old remains with severed heads found in Siberia

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The burial is from the Pazyryk culture.

See:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4872-160928-siberia-pazyryk-grave

"GORNO-ALTAISK, RUSSIA—The Siberian Timesreports that a 2,500-year-old grave from the Pazyryk culture has been found in the Altai Mountains. The grave was looted in antiquity, but still contained the remains of an adult and a child or teenager, who had been buried with two small bronze mirrors, ceramics, gold foil, and wearing fur garments. Their heads, however, had been removed and placed at their knees. Nikita Konstantinov of Gorno-Altaisk State University said the Pazyryks often buried defeated enemies without their heads, since they made the skulls into bowls. “But this is obviously a different case,” he said. It is possible that the heads were detached when the grave was looted, but the rest of the skeletons remained undisturbed. Konstantinov and his team will try to determine the age and sex of the skeletons, and study the cervical vertebrae to try to learn more about how the heads were removed. “We have no similar cases, so we need to investigate this one very thoroughly,” he said. "

Charming custom. For those interested in learning more about this people, other than that they made bowls from their enemies skulls even at this late date, see:

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/109-1311/features/1381-pazyryk-mummies-altay-mountains-siberia
 
the Xiongnu also made drinking cups from the skulls of defeated enemies
we know this from Chinese writings
 
similar to american indian custom
A 3,000 year-old village discovered in central California has been found to contain an unusual set of burials — with more than a half dozen individuals buried without their heads, and nearly as many others buried intact, with an extra skull by their side.
In two of the graves, the crowns of the severed skulls had even been fashioned into smooth, polished bowls
http://westerndigs.org/severed-head...s-were-tributes-not-war-trophies-study-finds/

scythain also:
According to Herodotus' Histories, Scythians killed their enemies and made their skulls into drinking cups.
 
the Xiongnu also made drinking cups from the skulls of defeated enemies
we know this from Chinese writings
mistery xoungnu did similar wrestling as sumer did

in xioungnu tomb near xian in China
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It was quite common to discredit almost everything Herodotus said. Western scholars (Fehling, Hartog) maintained that Herodotus' account on Scythians was mostly fictitious. And that is what we have been taught in school more or less by the way which is very sad.

The following is very informative (written by a Korean classist):
http://www.academia.edu/10885180/HE..._PERSPECTIVE_ITS_HISTORICITY_AND_SIGNIFICANCE

(^not everything he says is correct imo but he's nothing like traditional scholarship)
 
somehow it is dificult for us to accept stories about canibalism, human sacrifices for religious purposes, skulls as drinking bowls etc.
 
It was quite common to discredit almost everything Herodotus said. Western scholars (Fehling, Hartog) maintained that Herodotus' account on Scythians was mostly fictitious. And that is what we have been taught in school more or less by the way which is very sad.

The following is very informative (written by a Korean classist):
http://www.academia.edu/10885180/HE..._PERSPECTIVE_ITS_HISTORICITY_AND_SIGNIFICANCE

(^not everything he says is correct imo but he's nothing like traditional scholarship)

I think Pazyryks people were the same scythian.

the Pazyryks often buried defeated enemies without their heads, since they made the skulls into bowls.
 
somehow it is dificult for us to accept stories about canibalism, human sacrifices for religious purposes, skulls as drinking bowls etc.

As far as I know, american indian did all things. What about ANE Q, who stayed in Altai, not going to America?
I think that practices were the heritage of the ANE Q.
 

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