Mass horse burial for Duke Jing of Qi (reigned 547–490 BCE) of Spring and Autumn period ChinaExcavating a Roman horse burial in London in 2006
Horse burial is the practice of burying a horse as part of the ritual of human burial, and is found among many Indo-European speaking peoples and others, including Chinese and Turkic peoples. The act indicates the high value placed on horses in the particular cultures and provides evidence of the migration of peoples with a horse culture. Human burials that contain other livestock are rare; in Britain, for example, 31 horse burials have been discovered but only one cow burial, unique in Europe.[1] This process of horse burial is part of a wider tradition of horse sacrifice. An associated ritual is that of chariot burial, in which an entire chariot, with or without a horse, is buried with a dead person.
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Horseburial is the practice of burying a horse as part of the ritual of human burial, and is found among many Indo-European speaking peoples and others...
Chariot burials are tombs in which the deceased was buried together with their chariot, usually including their horses and other possessions. An instance...
proposed that both narratives are based on a shared cultural motif. Horseburial was practised in Scandinavia during the Late Roman Iron Age, consistent...
use of horses on the steppes is only noted from the late part of the third millennium BCE. The world's oldest horseburial and signs of horse worship...
Eurasian steppe. Horses are often sacrificed in a funerary context, and interred with the deceased, a practice called horseburial. There is evidence...
The Pazyryk burials are a number of Scythian (Saka) Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south...
Bronze axes Horse bridle items Reconstructed Srubnaya hut Timber grave and tumulus Dispersion of double-horseburials ca. 2000-1400/1300 BCE. Horses were domesticated...
stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central Asia) kurgans, and may be found throughout...
Sky burial (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered") is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose...
as a probable site of early horse domestication due to a high percentage of horse bones found at the site. A horseburial with bit wear and cheek pieces...
by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. The oldest known chariots have been found in burials of the Sintashta culture in modern-day...
Europe's earliest pottery (Elshanka culture), the world's oldest horseburial and signs of horse worship (the Syezzheye cemetery of Samara culture), and the...
artefacts Bronze armbands Chariot model, Arkaim museum Horse bridle items made from antler Double-horseburials 2000–1300 BC, associated with the spread of chariots...
Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive...
steed Chollima: Qianlima, thousand league horse Flying Horse of Gansu: well-known flying horse statue Horseburial in Chinese culture: archeological information...
most impressive of the burials without a chamber is that of a young man who was buried with his horse, in Mound 17. The horse would have been sacrificed...
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, in Custer County, South Dakota, United States...
It is also one of several potential locations for the site of Crazy Horse'sburial. In the first chapter, Brown presents a brief history of the discovery...
had a predecessor from the 5th century BC. Excavations have produced a horseburial and bronze artifacts. A possible religious cult may have centered on...
meat. The clearest evidence of early use of the horse as a means of transport is from chariot burials dated c. 2000 BC. However, an increasing amount...
municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wulfsen horseburial "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes...
features (non-portable modifications to the site itself such as post molds, burials, and hearths), ecofacts (evidence of human activity through organic remains...
Trojan Horse was a wooden horse said to have been used by the Greeks during the Trojan War to enter the city of Troy and win the war. The Trojan Horse is...
accoutrements, the burial included thirteen humans with no adornment above him, and around the edges of the burial twenty-two horses were buried in pairs...
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