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Comprehensive research on archeological findings of Iron Age
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. A team of Mongolian and Korean researchers held a comprehensive research for archeological findings from the early Iron Age at the Shiveet Khairkhan memorial in Tsengel soum, Bayan-Ulgii aimag.
During the scientific conference, ‘Mongolia-Korean joint research to study and preserve cultural heritage’, which took place at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS) on March 27, it was introduced that as a result of the comprehensive research done on the human remains and other findings some date on the tribe that once lived in the region is now available.
In partnership with the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Korea (NRICH), the Institute of History and Archeology at MAS has been implementing a project on the research and preservation of cultural heritage since 2008. In the frameworks of the joint project, they discovered various findings between 2009-2013, which currently serves as an important source for studying ancient history of Altai Mountains region. One of the main results of the joint research is that the findings were fully documented before their disappearance, creating a database for further study and research.
Acquiring the corresponding legal permissions, a genetics research team also collected samples from Mongolian citizens living in the west, east, central and northern parts of the country in the frameworks of the project in 2009-2013, which has been sent to the restoration and anthropology departments of the NRICH. The genetics study results have now begun to be published as a series under the title, ‘Paleoanthropology research of Mongolia’.
In 2015, the team started an archeological excavation for findings related to the Pazyryk culture of the early Iron Age at the Altai Mountains region. As a result, they found 7 pazyryk burials near the Shiveet Khairkhan mountain in Tsengel soum, Bayan-Ulgii aimag as well as 7 more burials relating to the ancient nomadic history in II-III century AD.
