Anthropological report of arctic people’s mummy found at a medieval grave of West Siberia
In arctic zone of West Siberia, native people’s bodies were sometimes mummified inside the medieval graves. In 2013 to 2017, we conducted the excavations of medieval graves at Zeleny Yar cemetery in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Among the burials, current report deals with the mummy grave #79. Dur...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10520856 2023-10-29T02:33:44+01:00 Anthropological report of arctic people’s mummy found at a medieval grave of West Siberia Slepchenko, Sergey Mikhailovich Gusev, Alexander Vasilyevich Svyatova, Evgenia Olegovna Hong, Jong Ha Lee, Hyejin Shin, Dong Hoon 2023-09-30 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10520856/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37258423 https://doi.org/10.5115/acb.23.051 en eng Korean Association of Anatomists http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10520856/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37258423 http://dx.doi.org/10.5115/acb.23.051 Copyright © 2023. Anatomy & Cell Biology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Anat Cell Biol Case Report Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.5115/acb.23.051 2023-10-01T00:53:00Z In arctic zone of West Siberia, native people’s bodies were sometimes mummified inside the medieval graves. In 2013 to 2017, we conducted the excavations of medieval graves at Zeleny Yar cemetery in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Among the burials, current report deals with the mummy grave #79. During the investigation, bronze plate and strips, woven or fur clothing, leather strap, beads, bronze bracelets, and iron knife etc. were collected. Anatomical and radiological research showed that the mummy was found intact with hair, skin, and skeletons, but the preservation status of soft tissue differed greatly depending on the area. The brain and eyes were well preserved, but the chest and abdominal organs almost disappeared. The arms were preserved to some extent, but only the bones remained in the legs. The West Siberian mummy could be a great resource for anthropologists to reveal the biological aspects of arctic indigenous people. Text Arctic nenets Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yamalo Nenets Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Siberia PubMed Central (PMC) Anatomy & Cell Biology 56 3 404 408 |
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In arctic zone of West Siberia, native people’s bodies were sometimes mummified inside the medieval graves. In 2013 to 2017, we conducted the excavations of medieval graves at Zeleny Yar cemetery in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Among the burials, current report deals with the mummy grave #79. During the investigation, bronze plate and strips, woven or fur clothing, leather strap, beads, bronze bracelets, and iron knife etc. were collected. Anatomical and radiological research showed that the mummy was found intact with hair, skin, and skeletons, but the preservation status of soft tissue differed greatly depending on the area. The brain and eyes were well preserved, but the chest and abdominal organs almost disappeared. The arms were preserved to some extent, but only the bones remained in the legs. The West Siberian mummy could be a great resource for anthropologists to reveal the biological aspects of arctic indigenous people. |
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