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<< News >> Anthropologists identify rider at Burnt City

Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 January 2007  Page Views: 1352

DiscoveriesCountry: Iran A team of Iranian and British anthropologists working on human remains discovered at the 5200-year-old Burnt City (Iran) have identified a male rider who they believe was a messenger in ancient times.

"Indications of riding are seen on the right leg bone of the man, who died at the age of 40 to 45. The swellings show that he had continuously worked as a professional rider since he was a teenager," the director of the Iranian anthropological team said. There are blade-shaped swellings on the lower part of the leg bone, Farzad Foruzanfar added. "The marks indicate that he had gathered his right leg while riding. Thus the riding was carried out on a big animal like a camel or ox," Foruzanfar explained.
There is evidence that draft animals were used in the Burnt City in ancient times, but gathering a leg while riding is something someone does while riding a camel over long distances. Thus, it is surmised that the man was a courier who traveled regularly.
Pathological studies on the skeletons discovered at the Burnt City cemetery are paving the way for the identification of the professions practiced in ancient times in the city, which was inhabited for about 1200 years. The studies are currently being carried out by experts from the Archaeological Research Center of Iran (ARCI) and a group of anthropologists of the University of Newcastle led by Dr. Kirsi Lorentz.

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Shrouded 5000-year-old child unearthed in Iran by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 January 2007
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The skeleton of a 5000-year-old child wrapped in a winding sheet was
discovered at the foot of a wall in the Taleb Khan Mound, which is
located near the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchestan Province (Iran).
"The skeleton was discovered in a room of a house, while
remnants of a white cloth were found around it. The cloth shows that
the child had been shrouded before burial," Mehdi Miri, the director
of the archaeological team working at the site, said. "It was common
for children to be buried at home in prehistoric times, but what
astounds the archaeologists is that the Taleb Khan Mound is located a
short distance from the Burnt City and was one of the city's
satellite villages, but the Burnt City has a cemetery separate from
the urban area while the Taleb Khan site has burials in its
residential area," he explained. The skeleton of the child has been
sent to the Burnt City Research Center and a team of experts is
carrying out botanical studies on pieces of the cloth at Zabol
University.



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