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

J. Bendezu-Sarmiento, Henri-Paul Francfort, A. Ismagulova, Z. Samashev

• 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