Fun facts from my zooarch days: if you shake a couple of these bones in your hands they sound like dice.
Anyone know where the site is? The article says “Ainabulak, […] a village in the eastern part of the country”, but the only Ainabulak I can find is in western Kazakhstan.
EDIT: The referenced Astana Times article puts the find in the Zaisan district, near the Altai and Tarbagatai ranges. Which I guess would put it near the eastern edge of the Andronovo culture.
One scale bar is enough, jeez.
Listen, it’s not the size that counts, it’s the amount of bones. 🎺
Fun fact
from my zooarch days:If you shake a bunch of these bones, that one colleague will start screaming at you.
Haha, my boss told me to check it out! 😅
It’s already kind of iffy to assume religious significance to a find, but to assume function within a ritual? Those bones could be her collection of pretty bones for all we know. That’s bad science journalism. I bet the archeologist got caught musing what could it mean and the writer simply cherry picked what they thought was most interesting.
