The Earliest Shamanic Attributes from the Northern Angara River Region
Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology April 30, 2024 Z. Marchenko, A. Grishin, Y. Garkusha
The paper analyzes artefacts from the Late Neolithic child burial of the Ust-Zelinda-2 site (Ust-Ilimsk District, Irkutsk Region, Russia). Some features of the burial practice (burial in a pit, secondary burial, manipulation with a skull, burial with an animal) and a rather diverse set of grave goods allow to consider the grave as a complex with traces of a non-typical handling of child’s...