The Mortuary Behavior at Sunghir

• Main Authors: Trinkaus, Erik, Buzhilova, Alexandra P., Mednikova, Maria B., Dobrovolskaya, Maria V.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Ochre; Arctic Fox
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199381050.003.0006

Considerations of the mortuary behavior at Sunghir concern principally the two elaborate graves, Graves 1 and 2. Although each exhibits patterns evident elsewhere in Mid Upper Paleolithic burials, the combinations of features and the richness of the two graves is truly exceptional. Yet there is addi...