The Lagar Velho burial included pierced deer teeth and shell ornaments, and the body was covered with red ochre pigment.
Sources
- Lagar Velho | Prehistoric, Megalithic, Dolmen | Britannica (britannica.com)
- https://donsmaps.com/lagar.html (donsmaps.com)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.96.13.7604 (pnas.org)
- https://www.antropologi.info/blog/docs/anthropology/pdf/Loeb-Lagar_Velho.pdf (antropologi.info)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12922572_The_Early_Upper_Paleolithic_Human_Skeleton_from_the_Abrigo_Do_Lagar_Velho_Portugal_and_Modern_Human_Emergence_in_Iberia (researchgate.net)
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