I find this burial enormously interesting. These elite women clearly died at a about the same time. Is there any indication of cause of death? Do they know if the ladies were related? was the obviously very important eldest woman buried with her adult daughters and a granddaughter? Were the other women her retinue to the afterlife?

The case for some Scythian women fighting as warriors seems proven. How did a girl get on the warrior track? Was it a life career choice or life stage? Did warrior women go on to become wives and mothers, chiefesses and priestesses?