Multi-disciplinary analysis of an elite Xiongnu tomb from Belkhin Am cemetery, Ulaanbaatar

The Xiongnu Empire was the first integrated political formation of Eastern Steppe nomads, whose history is known from contemporaneous Chinese written sources and archaeological findings their burials. Here we present a complex multidisciplinary study tomb cemetery Belkhin Am. features characterized grave as an elite burial. By radiocarbon analysis could be dated to middle era, between 1st century BCE CE. phylogenetic connections human remains found in were concordance with its Inner East Asian location.