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The joint Monaco-Mongolia archaeological mission, composed of archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnologists, conducts research on farming families in order to understand the social organization that probably already existed in Bronze Age communities around the Tsatsyn Ereg burial ground. The primary role that the horse plays in these societies characterizes numerous individual and social behavior patterns handed down through the millennia. Displacements, pagan and religious festivals, and military strategies evolved around equestrian disciplines. In Mongolia, for more than 3000 years, the horse has accompanied breeders from the cradle to the grave. Thousands of horse heads have been buried around the great aristocratic tombs during the Bronze Age and today are still solemnly deposited on the mountains.
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Baroni, I., Gantulga, JO., Magail, J., Yeruul-Erdene, C. (2016). Three Thousand Years of Nomadism on the Tsatsyn Ereg Site in the Heart of Mongolia. In: Biagetti, S., Lugli, F. (eds) The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23153-2_10
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