Sunghir Children

http://anthropology.net/2007/05/30/human-sacrifice-in-stone-age-europe/sunghir-burial/

The Sunghir Children are one of the burials looked at in the article "from the Sunghir Children to the Romito Dwarf" by Vincenzo Formicoli.  This burial is looked at in the article because of the odd way in which the children are buried and how old they are and why they were buried.  There are two children in this burial, they are placed head to head wearing elaboratly decorated clothing and jewelery.  The children are only 8 years old and 13 years old, and they were found to be Russian.

This burial along with the others mentioned in the article are making people along with the author wonder if prehistoric people sacrificed other people back in the upper paleolithic.  This also points to the humans of the upper paleolithic believing in relgion and possibly magic.

I think that ancient humans did believe in sacrifices not only from this article but from other papers, and documentaries.  This may be why the Sunghir chidren were burried in the way they were, although they could also have died from a sickness at the same time and their parents wanted them burried like this.  I guess we will never really know.

More information about Sunghir and the children can be found at http://donsmaps.com/sungaea.html