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Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and Settlements: <strong>Eurasian</strong> Bronze and Iron Age<br />

Figure 3. Early Sarmatian (200–100 BC) Burial 2, Kurgan 2: 1- Burial 2, male age 35–40, skull rolled backwards <strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> a soil mound;<br />

a pillow; funeral feast bones <strong>of</strong> sheep; cattle and horse bone found in kurgan; 2- iron long sword (ca 150 BC) with fragments <strong>of</strong> wood<br />

scabbard; 3- Early Sarmatian short iron sword; 4- corroded iron rod, unknown function; 5- bronze rivets (10 found); 6- iron knife,<br />

concave blade.<br />

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