Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 36 (4) 2008

Annotation:  Environmental Changes in the Mongolian Altai during the Holocene New Data on Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic Ceramics from the Volga-Kama Region 1929 Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Altai-Sayan Region (Western Tuva) Early Urilsky Culture Assemblage from Bukinsky Kluch, Bureya River Representations of Warriors on Early Medieval Turkic Bronze Plaques from Eastern Central Asia New Categories of Wooden Artifacts of the Mid 1st Millennium AD from the site of Vis II (Vychegda Ba The Han Chariot from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations) Petroglyph Sites of Kazakhstan and Western Central Asia as Part of the Archaeological Landscape: Ne Zoomorphic Images in Eastern Slavic Embroidery of Southwestern Siberia New Ethnic Holidays in the Sayan-Altai The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva: Craniometrical Evidence The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky Island: History and Context   

The Han Chariot from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia)

N.V. Polosmak, E.S. Bogdanov, D. Tseveendorj, and N. Erdene-Ochir.

Excavations of Noin Ula mound 20 revealed a light pleasure chariot yao che above the burial. The chariot may have also been used for military and hunting purposes. All its wooden parts were lacquered, and the bronze details were gilded. The umbrella was decorated with scarlet silk bands tied to every sixth rib. The intact chariot was placed in the grave pit, and only the wheels were removed. It was transported to the grave by way of a dromos. The tradition of placing one or several chariots in graves is part of the Chinese funerary rite.