FUNERAL PRACTICES AND ANIMAL SACRIFICES IN MONGOLIA AT THE UIGUR PERIOD - ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOHISTORICAL STUDY OF A KURGAN IN THE EGYIN-GOL VALLEY (BAIKAL REGION)

The nomadic peoples of central Eurasia are famous for their elaborate burial customs both as those are known ethnohistorically and evident i n the frozen tombs of Pazyryk. The Mongolian chambered grave reported here is of the 9th century AD. To that era the ethnohistorical record may have relevance in inferring its ceremony, alongside a considered k nowledge in experimental spirit of just what must have taken place at the grave in order to create the certain pattern seen on excavation.