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Hairstyles

Pontic Steppes

Men’s hair

Chang (2018) has documented several hair styles across depictions of Pontic Scythians:

• Hair, usually neck- or shoulder-length
  • Straight/hanging free
  • Tied with a thong or in a knot
  • Braided
  • Having bangs, with or without
• Facial Hair
  • Beards, both long and more closely cropped
  • Mustaches, both long and more closely cropped
  • Clean-shaven faces (depicting young men or possibly women)

Women’s hair

• no representations outside of Greek depictions of Amazons (or the above objects argued to depict women)

Altai

Men’s hair

• corpses shaved
• false beards

Women’s hair

• corpses shaved
• headdresses with braided hair and arranged vertically over head

N.N. Golovchenko (2019) has attempted several reconstructions of women’s hairstyles from the Altai-region burials.

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