Humans and Dogs in the Same Grave: A Sacrificial and Burial Complex of the Opushki Cemetery in the Crimea
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2022

The excavations at the Late Scythian area of the Opushki cemetery with the complexes from the first century BC to the second century AD uncovered grave no. 326 containing several tiers of burials of four dogs, children, and a headless woman. Skeletons of some of the buried were partially articulated, and only skulls remained of two children’s burials. One of the dogs laid on the back, with the paws stretched out, the neck craned, and a top fragment of an amphora without the neck and handles plac