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Post-mortem mutilations of human bodies in Early Iron Age Kazakhstan and their possible meaning for rites of burial
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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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
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