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SUMMARY:Open Brainstorming Session: Reconstructing an Iron Age burial ritu
 al. Kurgan 4\, Early Saka-Scythian burial complex -Eleke Sazy\, Kazakhstan
  - Saltanat Amirova\, University of Cambridge.
DTSTART:20210507T121500Z
DTEND:20210507T130000Z
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CONTACT:Laura Courto
DESCRIPTION:One of the aims of my PhD project is to reconstruct the burial
  ritual of a double inhumation burial (Kurgan 4)\, part of an Early Saka-S
 cythian burial complex\, Eleke Sazy\, located in East Kazakhstan. It has b
 een radiocarbon dated to 793-547 BC. A teenage male and female were buried
  in the same burial chamber of a burial mound (kurgan). Excavated in 2018\
 , the male inhumation was found almost entirely intact\, which is a very r
 are case for the Iron Age dated kurgans in general\, while the female was 
 almost entirely looted. In my presentation I am going to show the whole as
 semblage from the kurgan\, including organic and inorganic materials\, as 
 well as human remains. As my main specialisation is archaeometallurgy I am
  looking for opinions and advices on how to reconstruct the burial ritual 
 and get maximum information from the assemblage\, including but not limite
 d to post-mortem body manipulations\, cause of death\, sources and manufac
 turing technologies of different materials\, kurgan construction technolog
 ies\, etc. 
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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