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Archaeological surveys have been carried out on mummies found in peat bogs. This chapter is focused on one such mummy unearthed in Western Siberia, one of the largest wetland regions in the world. In the 1960s, a forensic expert examined a Cossack mummy discovered at a peat bog in the Kurtamysh district of the Kurganskaya Oblast. Despite this being a rare non-European “bog body” case, the investigations carried out to date have been insufficient. The data presented in this chapter, albeit still inadequate to reveal the complete nature of Siberian bog mummies, nevertheless, does present important insight into a preservation pattern not previously reported. Our report can provide fundamental information for future studies on bog bodies discovered in Western Siberian peat bogs.
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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea by the Ministry of Education (2020R1A2C1010708).
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Slepchenko, S.M. et al. (2021). Bog Bodies and Natural Mummification of Siberia. In: Shin, D.H., Bianucci, R. (eds) The Handbook of Mummy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1614-6_48-1
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