{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "ice-maiden",
 "type": "find",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Ukok woman",
  "aliases": [
   "the Siberian Ice Maiden",
   "the Altai Princess"
  ],
  "said": "5th century BCE, tattooed shoulder, frozen"
 },
 "region": [
  "siberia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "ancient"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": -450,
  "to": -400,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "5th century BCE"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A Pazyryk woman buried on the Ukok Plateau, preserved in ice for about 2,400 years, with animal designs on her skin.",
  "story": "An embalmed man from the same culture, at Pazyryk itself, is covered in animal motifs. The ice did the preserving, and the ice is also why the debate about where her body should now rest is a live political question rather than an academic one.\n\nThis site names the find, dates it, and leaves the reburial argument to the people whose argument it is."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "หญิงวัฒนธรรมปาซีริกที่ฝังบนที่ราบสูงอูก็อก เก็บรักษาในน้ำแข็งราว 2,400 ปี มีลายสัตว์บนผิวหนัง"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ukok",
   "as": "The place.",
   "rel": "place"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-siberian-ice-maiden",
  "s:wp-pazyryk-culture"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-siberian-ice-maiden"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "archaeology",
  "women"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "ukok",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "The Ukok Plateau",
   "as": "Who was in it."
  }
 ]
}