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| Archaeologists have found a paired burial ground in Yakutia, approximately 5,500 years old |
| 2025-09-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Scientists from the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) have discovered an ancient paired stone-age burial ground about 5.5 thousand years old. This was reported on September 8 by the center's press service. A unique historical monument in the Khangalassky ulus was discovered by a local resident and renowned regional historian, Alexander Filippov. He came across a human skull, which, according to archaeologists, was [carefully extracted] by horses from the crumbling coastal cliff of the Lena River. “To establish the historical and cultural value of the discovered object, which has the characteristics of an archaeological heritage site, and to save it for science from further destruction, a working commission was created by order of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Sites,” the research center reported. In addition to the administration staff, the expedition included archaeologists from the Arctic Research Center of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Yakutsk Complex Laboratory of Archaeology of the Far North of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, under the leadership of candidate of historical sciences Viktor Dyakonov and Elena Solovyova. In the summer of 2025, during excavations, a double burial of people who lived in Yakutia at the end of the Stone Age, in the Neolithic era, was discovered. The burial ground contained the skeletons of an adult and, presumably, a teenager, accompanied by rich burial goods. Among the finds were a large number of weapons: stone arrowheads of various types, composite knives with bone handles and flint insert blades, as well as many other blades. |
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