Post-mortem mutilations of human bodies in Early Iron Age Kazakhstan and their possible meaning for rites of burial

• Autores: J. Bendezu-Sarmiento, Henri-Paul Francfort, A. Ismagulova, Z. Samashev
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 82, Nº 315, 2008, págs. 73-86
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors find numerous cut-marks on human bones from an Early Iron Age cemetery in Kazakhstan and review a wide range of possible explanations. They discount cannibalism and find that the cuts and fractures fit best with a range of ritual mutilations known to ethno-archaeologists of the Altai region