Origin of the Alans

[Alanus]

Thanks, Robert.

The Berel kurgans began later than those at Pazyryk, and they seem to coincide with the rise of the Qin state and an increase in trade. This report is obviously a preliminary. We have no idea of the queen's cause of death, but we certainly are getting a better view of the importance women played in Yuezhi society. As an aside, the #1 cause of death is-- fatal injury from being impaled by a sharp instrument. 

Next to battles and raiding, we find spinal and hip injuries from horse riding and also various forms of cancer. In Altai cases, marijuana appears to be used as the common pain killer, either as a tea or inhaled within a tepee-shaped tent.