An unusual burial has been excavated in Siberia

An unusual burial was discovered by archaeologists at the Ust-Tartas site in Siberia.

The deceased was buried 5,000 years ago with a strange collar or a headdress created from bird bones covering the neck of a person.

According to researchers, such a bone collar could be an element of armor and had a sacred significance. But they have not yet established how the bones could be attached to the fabric. No mounting holes have been identified.

In one of the graves, scientists have found a whole series of multi-colored ornaments of different sizes made of crescent-shaped stone, which in the scientific community are commonly called moon-shaped pendants.

The head of the archeology department of the Paleometal era, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vyacheslav Molodin said that such decorations are found in a fairly extensive area in separate graves of the Early Bronze Age of Pribaikalye, Krotov culture, in Okunev culture in the Minusinsk depression, as well as in rock paintings of that era in Gorny Altai.

Such artifacts were found for the first time in the tomb of the Odin culture, which tells scientists about the epochality of the "lunar" cult and its very wide distribution in the North Asian territory during the Bronze Age.

Not far from the skull they found "glasses" from 2 bronze hemispheres and ceremonial polished stones. This may indicate the priestly status of the deceased. Next to him, archaeologists found the bodies of 2 children aged 5 and 10 years.