Funeral practices and animal sacrifices in Mongolia at the Uigur period: archaeological and ethno-historical study of a kurgan C. in the Egyin Gol valley (Baikal region)

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Inhumation and cremation in medieval<br />Mongolia: analysis and analogy

International audienceThe authors study burials of the medieval period in westernMongolia shortly before the emergenceof Genghis Khan. They find that both inhumation and cremation are practised, with a varietyof accompanying rituals. Systematic micro-analysis of bone fragments on the one hand, and theaccounts of early travellers on the other, allow these researchers to propose detailed explanationsof mortuary practice in thirteenth century Altai that will be highly suggestive to prehistoriansworking elsewhere

Contribution à l'étude du peuplement de la région péri-Baïkal : étude anthropologique des restes humains mis au jour à Egyin Gol (Mongolie) en 1994

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The man, the woman and the hyoid bone: from archaeology to the burial practices of the Xiongnu people (Egyin Go1 valley, Mongolia)

International audienceA man and a woman were found in a double burial dating from the 1st century BC and located in a Xiongnu burial site in northern Mongolia. An offering box at the head of the man's coffin contained both remains of domestic animals and a human hyoid bone. The skeleton of the man was complete whereas the woman's hyoid bone was missing. The isolated hyoid bone could belong to the buried woman, which suggests the removal of her tongue and probably her sacrifice