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Hairstyles

Pontic Steppes

Men’s hair

• neck/shoulder-length
• collected in ponytails
• held by headbands
• curls or braids, perhaps?
• beards prominent, with occasional youth (or, arguably, women) on a small number of objects

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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