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Polygamy has been practiced for thousands of years. Surprising discovery from the Urals.
Currently, polygamy in Western culture raises controversies. Several thousand years ago, in the region of South Ural, having multiple partners could have been an acceptable privilege. What else is known about families from that time?
Thanks to increasingly advanced research techniques, the discovery of human remains is a source of knowledge not only about burial practices but also about how the deceased lived, what illnesses they had, and even how they looked. Facial reconstructions have recently gained particular popularity in the scientific community. Digital models reveal the appearance not only of ordinary people but also of historically known figures.
Polygamy in the Bronze Age
Genetic studies of human remains can also reveal information about the origins of the deceased and relationships among members of a given community. And here, too, there is no shortage of surprises. Researchers came to interesting conclusions after finding the skeletons of a three-generation family in a burial mound in the Nepluyevsky cemetery in Russia.
By reconstructing the genealogical tree based on the DNA of the skeletons, scientists determined that the family that lived on the border of Asia and Europe 3800 years ago…
