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Chariot burials are
tombs in which the deceased was buried together with his
chariot, usually including his (more rarely, her)
horses and other possessions.
The earliest chariots known are from chariot burials of the
Andronovo (Timber-Grave) sites of the
Sintashta-Petrovka culture in modern
Russia, clustering along the upper
Tobol river, southeast of
Magnitogorsk, from around
2000 BC, containing spoke-wheeled chariots drawn by teams of two horses. This culture is at least partially derived from the earlier
Yamna culture, and is generally accepted as an early
Proto-Indo-Iranian culture. The
Krivoye Ozero chariot grave contained a horse skull, three pots, two bridle cheek pieces, and points of spears and arrows. The bones were dated to an average of 2026 BC.
Later chariot burials are found in
China, the most famous was discovered in
1933 at Hougang, Anyang of central China's
Henan Province, dating to the rule of King
Wu Ding of the
Yin Dynasty (ca.
1200 BC). A
Western Zhou (
9th century BC) chariot burial was unearthed at Zhangjiapo,
Chang'an in
1955.
In Europe, chariot burial was mainly an
Iron Age Celtic custom, most probably of
Thraco-Cimmerian origin (the Thraco-Cimmerians established themselves as the ruling class, over the proto-Celtic
Hallstattian peoples, and their
steppe-culture influenced the subsequent Celtic La Tene culture). A tomb from the
4th century BC was discovered in
La Gorge-Meillet (
Marne,
France). The only
Etruscan find dates to ca.
530 BC, and is preserved in pristine quality, see
Etruscan chariot.
In
Britain, the earliest sites date to around
500 BC, probably coinciding with the
Celtic immigration to the British Isles. Finds of burials are rare, and the persons interred were presumably chieftains or wealthy notables. The
Wetwang chariot burial of ca.
300 BC is an exception in that a woman was interred with the chariot. Some 20 British sites are known, spanning approximately four centuries, virtually all in the
East Riding of Yorkshire. The burial custom seems to have disappeared with the
Roman occupation of
Britain.
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