“Altai Amazon” of the ancient burial site turned out to be a man – Russian newspaper

The sensational details paleogeneticheskih Research Pazyryk released Novosibirsk archeologists. DNA tests showed that I found 25 years ago, “Altai Amazon” has a male gender.

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The results of molecular genetic analysis of the bodies of two soldiers found in the burial mound of Ak-1 Alakha published in the journal of the Siberian Branch of RAS “Science at first hand”.

with the unusual burial mound was discovered on the Ukok Plateau in the Altai Mountains quarter of a century ago. For a long time it was believed that there were buried the father and daughter – old experienced warrior and a young Amazon.

– It was the first not looted, frozen burial Pazyryk, where the ice preserved all that is usually not stored, – burial items fragments costume, outfit horses – remember Novosibirsk archeologists Vyacheslav and Natalya Polosmak Molodin. – Buried in it people have a fairly high social status and were treated to the elite Pazyryk society, they were warriors-riders.

Since the bodies were not mummified, their gender and age have been installed on skeletal remains. Anthropologists said that in the first deck buried a man aged 40-45 years, and the second – a girl of 16-17 years. However, a number of scientists had already noticed unusual facial features of the young Amazons – in particular, a large skull and a massive jaw. However, in the same tomb were discovered 34 cowrie shells, considered a symbol of fertility and women’s earring, which confirmed the findings of the anthropologists. Scientists have hypothesized about the possible existence in the Pazyryk society tradition, according to which young girls from the elite of society, prone to the military case, before the marriage could learn the practice of gun ownership.

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However, after 25 years of beautiful legend of the Amazons of the Altai was destroyed.

– The analysis of markers with uniparental inheritance we established the likelihood of close kinship considered individuals of the guys bury both the female and the male line – say researchers.

DNA analysis performed at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, showed that the second buried a young man and, possibly, the nephew of the first.

– In one tomb of two men brought not only the relationships and a certain social status, but also the fact that both of them may not survive winter and were buried in the spring, when it became possible, – says Natalya Polosmak.

In addition, the researchers found that the older soldier suffering from severe lesions of osteoarticular apparatus and has been inactive disabled. The reasons for the death of his nephew is not set.

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