Caucasian woman aged 50-60 buried in embroidered dress with torc, bracelets, rings, carnelian beads, and tattooing tools. She had severe spine diseases and prosthetic left hand with ring. Kichigino mounds hold Sarmatian aristocratic burials from 4th century BCE. Mound 3 has five burials: two male horsemen with quivers and iron swords. Three female burials include two young women each with quivers of over 150 arrows. Elderly woman lacks arrows as she married and quit military per Herodotus Sauromatian custom. Young women trained in horse riding, bow shooting, and war before marriage. One woman deemed Sarmatian priestess wore Scythian-style gold-foiled bronze torc. Priestess had gold-foiled bronze bracelets, carnelian and Indian agate beads, bronze pot, and unusual mirror. Sarmatians made fake-gold torcs by wrapping bronze rods in thick gold leaf. Young women buried with simple wire torcs. Elderly woman had animal-style torc ends.
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