Sungir

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Sungir is an archaeological site in Russia, about 200 km east of Moscow.

The site is approximately 28,000 to 30,000 years old and serves as a grave to an older man and two children adorned with expensive jewelry and remnants of clothing. Discovered in 1955, the site underwent excavations from 1957 to 1977. Most notably, Otto Bader excavated a Neanderthal femur that had been severed at the joints. The socket was filled with ocher-colored powdered.

This is one of the oldest discovered records of modern Homo sapiens in Europe.

[edit] Bibliography

• Nikolai Bader (ed.): "Posdnepaleolitischeskoje posselenije Sungir. Nautschny Mir, Moscow; 272 pages.

[edit] External links

• The Sunghir archaeological site

• Abbildung

• Spiegel-online: Todeskampf der Flachköpfe (German)