Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange

Why This Paleolithic Burial Site Is So Strange
José-Manuel Benito Álvarez

Around 34,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who roamed the Russian plains started to bury their dead at the site of Sunghir, about 200 kilometers east of what is today Moscow.

Now considered one of the most iconic Upper Paleolithic sites in Europe, Sunghir was initially discovered in 1955 while it was a quarry.

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