Roman chariot with two horses unearthed

[Still Waters]

Archaeologists in Croatia have unearthed the fossilised remains of a Roman chariot buried along with two horses as part of a burial ritual. 

A large burial chamber for an 'extremely wealthy family' was found in which the carriage with what appears to be two horses had been lain.  

Archaeologists from the City Museum Vinkovci and Institute of Archaeology from Zagreb discovered the Roman carriage on two wheels (known in Latin as a cisium) with horses at the Jankovacka Dubrava site close to the village of Stari Jankovci, near the city of Vinkovci, in eastern Croatia. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7583261/Roman-chariot-horse-fossils-unearthed-Croatia-buried-together.html

https://www.croatiaweek.com/photos-1800-year-old-roman-chariot-with-horses-found-buried-in-croatia/

[acute]

That's amazing!

Thanks, SW. 

[Piney]

40 minutes ago, Still Waters said:

Archaeologists in Croatia have unearthed the fossilized remains of a Roman chariot buried along with two horses as part of a burial ritual. 

 

Not if it's only 1,700 years old. It hasn't even carbonized yet. 

[darkmoonlady]

The Celts and Scythians buried their horses with chariots and wagons as well. It's just supposition but when they killed the horses, they usually cut their throats and the first horse is surprised but the second knows and freaks out from the blood, which playing horse CSI looks like what happened. The ritual killing of stock seems so wasteful but as with the Egyptians they probably believed they needed them in the afterlife. I'll be curious what the analysis of the horses comes back with.

[Piney]

1 hour ago, darkmoonlady said:

The Celts and Scythians buried their horses with chariots and wagons as well. It's just supposition but when they killed the horses, they usually cut their throats and the first horse is surprised but the second knows and freaks out from the blood, which playing horse CSI looks like what happened. The ritual killing of stock seems so wasteful but as with the Egyptians they probably believed they needed them in the afterlife. I'll be curious what the analysis of the horses comes back with.

The Eastern Iranians, Celts and Germans believed they were going to pass to another world with all the same features and needed their goodies, which was probably a original PIE belief.  

[Unusual Tournament]

3 hours ago, darkmoonlady said:

The Celts and Scythians buried their horses with chariots and wagons as well. It's just supposition but when they killed the horses, they usually cut their throats and the first horse is surprised but the second knows and freaks out from the blood, which playing horse CSI looks like what happened. The ritual killing of stock seems so wasteful but as with the Egyptians they probably believed they needed them in the afterlife. I'll be curious what the analysis of the horses comes back with.

The horse skeleton looks to small to pull that chariot. Must have been more symbolic. 

[hetrodoxly]

7 hours ago, darkmoonlady said:

The Celts and Scythians buried their horses with chariots and wagons as well. It's just supposition but when they killed the horses, they usually cut their throats and the first horse is surprised but the second knows and freaks out from the blood, which playing horse CSI looks like what happened. The ritual killing of stock seems so wasteful but as with the Egyptians they probably believed they needed them in the afterlife. I'll be curious what the analysis of the horses comes back with.

The horse were not only in a standing position but their front hooves were of the floor as if in a leaping position in a ' chariot and horse burial discovered in England in 2017, it makes you think they were buried alive or buried up to their necks before being killed.  

[jaylemurph]

12 hours ago, Piney said:

The Eastern Iranians, Celts and Germans believed they were going to pass to another world with all the same features and needed their goodies, which was probably a original PIE belief.  

Pre-christian Goths were a weird exception—typically, they didn’t bury grave goods with the dead. Some people (like H. Wolfram) suggest they didn’t need weapons in the next world. I figure their original beliefs got altered in all those centuries of wandering. 
 

—Jaylemurph