WOOL REMAINS FROM SCYTHIAN BURIALS IN SIBERIA

Summary. Eight carpet or textile yarns and six felt samples from the frozen burials dated c. 400 B. C. at Pazyryk and Bashadar were studied. One sample was identified as underwool from a non-fleeced 'hair' sheep (Neolithic survival). Five samples were of the most primitive fleece type, the hairy medium wool, and five of the next most primitive type, the generalised medium wool (both emerged in the Bronze Age). There was one hairy sheep and, as found at Hallstatt, there were two semi-fine fleeces (shortwools). The last two types developed in the Iron Age.