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Buret

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DEFINITION: A site in southern Sibera, western Turkistan, which was occupied in late Palaeolithic times. It is known for mammoth-tusk figurines of women. They resemble Paleolithic statuettes from Europe and the Middle East and the nude ones probably served as fertility symbols or as representations of the great goddess, whose cult was widespread. Of five found at Buret, the most unusual is a clothed woman wearing a one-piece trouser suit with a hood attached to it comparable to those still worn by present-day Eskimos.

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Okladnikov, Aleksei Pavlovich (1908-1984)

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DEFINITION: Soviet archaeologist working in Siberia and Central Asia. He discovered the Neanderthal burial at Teshik Tash in Uzbekistan and worked at the Palaeolithic sites of Ust'-Kan Cave, Ulalinka, Makarovo, Krasnyj Yar, and Buret'. He wrote the classic Yakutia Before Its Incorporation into the Russian State" (1970 originally published in Russian 2nd ed. 1955)."