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ONAR: a source-led atlas of Mari history and culture

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ONAR presents Mari history, language, settlement, sacred geography, mythology, and culture through an atlas organized around evidence and source records.

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For: Mari history, language, and culture researchers
Worth noticing: Timeline entries label records by evidence type, while archaeological layers are explicitly not treated as direct proof of ethnic identity.

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The atlas keeps several kinds of evidence distinct: its timeline describes periods as a navigation framework rather than proof of an uninterrupted ethnic line, and it presents competing formation hypotheses with limits. Geography pages connect rivers, forests, settlement patterns, and sacred places to the claims sources can support. Source links carry labels such as primary, archive, academic, and discovery lead.

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