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Archaeologists Find 1,000-Year-Old Elite Woman’s Grave with Gold-Plated Earrings and Horse Gear in Siberia
Archaeologists studying a medieval burial in the Sayan Mountains have identified a rare elite woman’s grave containing gold-plated earrings, a newborn child, a horse-skin ritual deposit, and a rich set of riding equipment. The burial was found at Sayany-Pogranichnoye-4, a cemetery near the Idzhim River in southern Krasnoyarsk Krai. The site belongs to a wider…
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10,500-Year-Old Fishing Gear Discovered in Siberia’s Yenisei Region
A fragment of carved deer antler, shaped into a hook thousands of years ago, is rewriting what we know about early human survival in northern Eurasia. Archaeologists in Krasnoyarsk have identified fishing equipment dating between 9,000 and 10,500 years ago—evidence that communities in Yenisei Siberia mastered complex riverine technologies at the dawn of the Holocene.…