An elaborate burial of a 60-year-old found in Sungir, Russia. The man is wearing bracelets, necklaces, pendants and a tunic adorned with thousands of mammoth-ivory beads. Two juvenile burials were found at the same site. The site and the skeletons date back to 30,000 ya (Pettitt and Bader 2015). Photo José-Manuel Benito Álvarez [Public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunghir-tumba_paleol%C3%ADtica.jpg ].

 
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