3,800-year-old burial of tall warrior buried with 4-pronged spearhead unearthed in Azerbaijan
Archaeologists in Azerbaijan found the 3,800 -year tomb of an imposing warrior who was buried with a four -part spear spear.
The tomb was found on the distant plains and swept by the wind of Ceyranchol, a few kilometers from the western borders of Azerbaijan with Georgia and Armenia. The funeral mound – known locally as Kurgan – is on the Keshikchidagh Historical and cultural reserve, an area known for its natural and human caves, its castles and its primitive Christian monasteries.
An analysis of the skeletal of the man remains indicated that he was held at around 6 feet, 7 inches (2 meters) in height when he was alive around 1800 BC, during the average bronze age.
According to a translated declaration Government authorities, the old tomb and the remains were discovered inside a new Kurgan which measured more than 90 feet (28 m) in diameter and more than 6.6 feet (2 m) high.
The funeral chamber itself was divided by three-part walls. One contained the body and equipment, including weapons; Another held only pottery ships; And a third part was empty. The division within the tomb may have reflected a belief in a “other world” after death, the researchers said in the press release.
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The remains of the warrior were found in a “semi-flexible” position, and he held a bronze lance.
Bronze ornaments have also been found around one of the man’s ankles. Other serious goods included glass beads, obsidian tools and “twelve terracotta and richly decorated jugs”, said the press release. Some of the jugs contained the leftover bone bones that had apparently been cooked for the warrior to eat after death – “food for life after death”, according to the press release.
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Archaeologists said the style of the tomb said that man had been a warrior, and perhaps a military chief. In particular, the bronze cradle iron he held was in a distinctive “four -component” style and a rare discovery in the region, according to the press release.
Azerbaijan has hundreds of kurgans dating from the Bronze Age (from 3300 to 1200 BC in this region) and the Iron Age (from around 1200 to around 600 BC. Shamil NajafovArchaeologist at the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, which led the last excavations.
