Editing Huns (section)

===Burials and burial customs===
[[File:02019 Burial of a warrior from Ługi, Migration period in Silesia.jpg|thumb|Nomad-style burial of a warrior from Ługi, Migration period in Silesia. The grave shows many similarities to burials along the Black Sea among the Alano-Sarmatian milieu.{{sfn|Rodzińska-Nowak|2020|p=392}}]]
An account of the funeral of Attila is provided by Jordanes, who may derive it from Priscus:{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=275}} Jordanes reports that the Huns cut their hair and disfigured their faces with swords as part of the rite, a widely attested custom among steppe peoples.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=274-275}} After this, Attila's coffin was placed in a silk tent, and horsemen rode around it singing funeral dirges called a ''strava''. The coffin was then covered in precious metals and buried secretly together with weapons, and the slaves who dug the grave were killed to keep the location secret.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=275-277}} Maenchen-Helfen suggests that the dirges and the horsemanship were likely separate events, with the latter possibly representing funereal horse races as found among other steppe peoples, while the killing of the slaves may have been a sacrifice.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=277-278}}

Although a great amount of archaeological material has been unearthed since 1945, as of 2005 there were only 200 burials that have plausibly identified as Hunnic, including both in the Carpathian Basin and the Pontic Steppe.{{sfn|Heather|2005|pp=330–331}} Hun-period burials identified with the nomadic milieu on the Eurasian steppe and in the Carpathian Basin typically feature rich deposits of grave goods, which modern archaeologists call {{lang|de|Totenopfer}} (offerings to the dead).{{sfn|Rodzińska-Nowak|2020|p=379}} However, the richest nomad-related burials have all been found in other locations than the Carpathian Basin, although this was Attila's center of power and one would expect to find elite burials clustered there.{{sfn|Kulcsár|Istvánovits|2019|pp=178-179}} Most burials from the Carpathian Basin match the material culture of the previously indigenous Germanic peoples; the dearth of Hun related burials may indicate that most Hunnish funerals may have disposed of the body in such a way that no remains were left, or that they adopted Germanic material culture.{{sfn|Heather|2005|p=331-332}}

Frequently, nomad-related graves from the Hun period contain evidence of objects being burned, probably as part of the burial ceremonies.{{sfn|Anke|2010|p=519}} The common nomadic practice of burying parts of animals, such as their shoulder blades or limbs, with the deceased is only attested rarely in the Carpathian Basin.{{sfn|Anke|2010|p=520}} Likewise, while Central Asian and East European nomad burials frequently feature [[kurgan]]s, these are entirely absent in the Carpathian basin.{{sfn|Anke|2010|p=519}}