Double grave of boys from the Sungir camp site (reconstruction)

A unique double grave of children from the Upper Paleolithic period in Russia.
First researcher of the find, M.M.Gerasimov, initially determined gender of the buried as male. Later, in a course of study of the remains, it was presumed that one of the skeletons belongs to a boy of about 12-14 years and the other to a girl of 9-10 years. Modern DNA analysis has confirmed that both of the buried teenagers were male. The causes of their deaths are unknown. There were no visible pre-life injuries on the bones of the remains. Children lay stretched out on their backs with their heads close together. The rich stone and bone inventory were put in the grave. Along one the walls of the grave were laid spears made from straightened tusk of a mammoth and a wooden spear, of which only a stone disk remained. In addition to spears, there were also short javelins. The boys were buried in clothing embroidered with thousands of mammoth tusk beads. Analyzing location of groups of those allowed to reconstruct approximately what were the children’s outfits. Possibly those were fur caps, coats and capes and fur trousers with fur boots, tied above the knees with thongs. On the hands of a younger child were bracelets made of mammoth tusk.