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An archaeologist is an investigator who is very late to the crime scene. In this case, by about thirty thousand years. That is how long the remains of a richly dressed man, who clearly did not die a natural death, lay on the outskirts of modern Vladimir. But what did he die of? What can the nature of the fatal wound tell us about the society in which he lived? And how does an archaeologist's shovel differ from a stone biface? We talk about the burial of a man from the Sungir site with Doctor of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Head of the Department of Physical Anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Vladimirovich Vasiliev. Did you like the material? Become a subscriber to the Proshloe magazine and support our projects: https://proshloe.com/donate / @proshloejournal 00:00 Introduction 01:48 Burials at the Sunghir site 04:04 Sergey Vasiliev 04:31 Characteristics of the Sunghir site 07:04 Dating the Sunghir site 08:56 Excavations of the Sunghir site: O. N. Bader and M. M. Gerasimov 11:20 Incident with a shovel 13:44 History of the study of remains from the Sunghir site 20:30 New opportunities for anthropological research 27:13 Suspicious hole in the skull 28:37 Archaeological traceology 29:29 Living and dead bone 33:37 Features of the Sunghir-1 burial 35:04 How it was fatal blow delivered? 38:02 Cooperation with forensic experts 40:47 Two fatal wounds 41:30 Conclusion