findThe Ukok woman
5th century BCE, tattooed shoulder, frozen
about 450 BCE – 400 BCE · 5th century BCE
What it is
A Pazyryk woman buried on the Ukok Plateau, preserved in ice for about 2,400 years, with animal designs on her skin.
The long version
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.
This site names the find, dates it, and leaves the reburial argument to the people whose argument it is.
Connected to
- The Ukok Plateau The place.
Named here by
- The Ukok Plateau Who was in it.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Siberian Ice Maiden — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Siberian Ice Maiden — Wikipedia (en)
- Pazyryk culture — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there