{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "ukok",
 "type": "place",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Ukok Plateau",
  "said": "Altai, Siberia — where the ice kept a tattooed shoulder for 2,400 years"
 },
 "region": [
  "siberia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The high plateau on the Russian–Chinese–Mongolian frontier where frozen Pazyryk burials preserved tattooed skin.",
  "story": "Water got into the burial chamber through a robber's shaft, froze, and sealed everything inside a block of ice under stone and permafrost. Clothing, wood, horses and skin came out of it."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ice-maiden",
   "as": "Who was in it.",
   "rel": "find"
  }
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 49.3,
  "lon": 87.5,
  "precision": "region",
  "source": "s:wp-siberian-ice-maiden"
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-siberian-ice-maiden",
  "s:wp-pazyryk-culture"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-siberian-ice-maiden"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "ice-maiden",
   "type": "find",
   "name": "The Ukok woman",
   "as": "The place."
  }
 ]
}