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SUNGIR REVISITED: NEW DATA ON CHRONOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE KEY UPPER PALEOLITHIC SITE, CENTRAL RUSSIAN PLAIN

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Yaroslav V Kuzmin Open the ORCID record for Yaroslav V Kuzmin [Opens in a new window] ,
Mathieu Boudin ,
Marine Wojcieszak Open the ORCID record for Marine Wojcieszak [Opens in a new window] ,
Antoine Zazzo ,
Laura van der Sluis Open the ORCID record for Laura van der Sluis [Opens in a new window] ,
Darya I Stulova ,
Konstantin N Gavrilov ,
Elizaveta V Veselovskaya  and
Sergey V Vasilyev
Yaroslav V Kuzmin*
Affiliation:
Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090Novosibirsk, Russia
Mathieu Boudin
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 1000Brussels, Belgium
Marine Wojcieszak
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, 1000Brussels, Belgium Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 2000Johannesburg, South Africa
Antoine Zazzo
Affiliation:
Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, F-75005Paris, France
Laura van der Sluis
Affiliation:
Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, F-75005Paris, France Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1030Vienna, Austria
Darya I Stulova
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117292Moscow, Russia
Konstantin N Gavrilov
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117292Moscow, Russia
Elizaveta V Veselovskaya
Affiliation:
N.N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334Moscow, Russia Russian State University for Humanities, 125993Moscow, Russia
Sergey V Vasilyev
Affiliation:
N.N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334Moscow, Russia
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*Corresponding author. Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Abstract

Chronological and stratigraphic frameworks are of the utmost importance for Upper Paleolithic archaeology, physical anthropology, and ecology. Wide ranging radiocarbon (14C) dates were previously obtained for the Sungir burial complex in the central part of European Russia, which is well-known as the richest funeral Paleolithic assemblage in the world yet recorded. The major problem was the contamination caused by consolidants used during the recovery of human bones in the 1960s. The stratigraphy and spatial structure of the Sungir site were also not well understood previously. New radiocarbon and stable isotope data are generated for the Sungir burials. While some dates were younger due to incomplete removal of contamination, the XAD 14C age on S-1 burial (ca. 29,780 BP) was found to be statistically the same as the previously performed HYP 14C age for this burial (ca. 28,890 BP). Four animal bones found in cultural layer below the burial date to ca. 28,800–30,140 BP, suggesting that both this layer and human burials date to roughly this age range. Narrowing these ages further is difficult considering the larger errors of the 14C dates. This shows that future research attempting to 14C date material excavated many years ago needs to eliminate potential contamination from consolidants through analyses such as FTIR, prior to 14C dating. The chronology and stratigraphy of Sungir do not contradict to correlation of its lithic artifacts with the Streletskian assemblage as the East European variant of the Final Szeletian technocomplex (Early Upper Paleolithic).

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chronologyEarly Upper PaleolithicRussian PlainstratigraphySungir
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Radiocarbon , Volume 64 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 949 - 968
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