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What Do the Tattoos and Artifacts of the Pazyryk Culture Reveal? - The Pazyryk Culture and the Perishable World of the Ancient Steppe | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of what survives from the ancient world is made of stone, metal, or pottery. The wood, leather, felt, and food that people actually used in their daily lives usually disappear within a few centuries. But in the high valleys of the Altai Mountains, water seeped into sealed burial chambers of larch and stone, froze, and stayed frozen for two thousand years. This natural permafrost preserved the perishable world of the Pazyryk culture, offering an intimate archaeological record of how…
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