Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - The Age of the Sunghir Upper Paleolithic Human Burials
AU  - Trinkaus E
AU  - Buzhilova A P
AU  - Mednikova M B
AU  -  Dobrovolskaya M V
Y1  - 2015
VL  - 53
IS  - 1-2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 221
EP  - 231
KW  - Human paleontology – Radiocarbon – Russia – Dating – Paleoclimate
N2  - 
N2  - The earlier Upper Paleolithic site of Sunghir, northern Russia yielded elaborate burials of an adult
and of two immature individuals, dug into the sediments below a rich archeological horizon. The faunal remains and the human burials have yielded a series of radiocarbon dates, raising questions as to the age of the site and whether the burials postdated the archeological remains. Current radiocarbon dates on the human remains place them between 25,000 and 27,500 14C BP; this age is among the majority of the faunal dates, supporting the
stratigraphic and artifactual evidence for contemporaneitys of the burials and the archeological levels. Multiple
lines of evidence from the site indicate that the occupation and the burials were during a moderately warm phase of
the Interpleniglacial (Marine Isotope Stage 3). Paleoclimatic correlation indicates that they must therefore date to one of the Greenland Interstadials, most likely GI-5 ~28,000 14C BP. These dates place the Sunghir site and the
human burials among the earliest of the Mid Upper Paleolithic elaborate burials currently known.
ER  -