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Anthropomorphic figurines in Ferghana burials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

G. A. Brykina
G. A. Brykina*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology USSR, Ulianova 19, 117036 Moscow, USSR
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Abstract

Ferghana, lying between the republics of Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and Kirghizia, was famous in antiquity for its horses. Its Iron Age archaeology was brought to the attention of western audiences in Gorbunova's The culture of ancient Ferghana of 1986 (BAR S281). Here we are presented with a fascinating ethnoarchaeological study of a mid-first millennium AD burial practice and an interpretation of its symbolism

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 244 , September 1990 , pp. 591 - 597
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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