Saltmen
The Saltmen (
Discovery
In the winter of 1993, miners came across a body with long hair, a beard and some artifacts. These included the remains of a body, a lower leg inside a leather boot, three iron knives, a woollen half trouser, a silver needle, a sling, parts of a leather rope, a grindstone, a walnut, some pottery shards, some patterned textile fragments, and a few broken bones. The body had been buried in the middle of a tunnel approximately 45 metres (148 ft) in length.[2]
In 2004, another salt miner found the remains of a second man. During archaeological excavations in 2005, the remains of another two well-preserved men were found. In 2006, the Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency partnered with the
Research
After archaeological studies which included C14 dating of different samples of bones and textiles, the Salt Man was dated to about 1,700 years ago. By testing a sample of hair, the blood group B+ was determined.
Three-dimensional
Three of the saltmen are dated to the
In a 2012 research paper,
See also
- Mummy
- Ötzi the Iceman
References
- ^ ISSN 0342-734X.
- ^ "Salt Men of Iran". Altas Obscura. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Salt men of Iran". Past Horizons. June 7, 2011. Archived from the original on May 8, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
- ^ "بازسازی چهره اجساد نمکی در ایران". CHN. August 22, 2005. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016.
- ^ S2CID 26253984.
Sources
- Aali, Abolfazl; Stöllner, Thomas; Abar, Aydin; Rühli, Frank (2012). "The Salt Men of Iran: The Salt Mine of Douzlākh, Chehrābād". Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. 42 (1). Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums: 61–81. ISSN 0342-734X.
- Hadian; Good; Pollard (2013). "Textiles from Douzlakh Salt Mine at Chehr Abad, Iran: A Technical and Contextual Study of Late pre-Islamic Iranian Textiles". The International Journal of Humanities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 19 (3). Tarbiat Modarres University: 152–173. ISSN 1735-5060. Archived from the originalon 19 July 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
- National Museum of Iran, Description of the exhibits. Tehran.
- Ramaroli, V; Hamilton, J.; Ditchfield, P.; Fazeii, H.; Aali, A.; Coningham, R.A.E.; Pollard, A.M. (2010). "The Chehr Abad "Salt men" and the isotopic ecology of humans in ancient Iran". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143 (3): 343–354. PMID 20949607.
- ISBN 964-91875-1-0.