The Lagar Velho burial included pierced deer teeth and shell ornaments, and the body was covered with red ochre pigment.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the original 1999 PNAS paper (Duarte et al.) and multiple independent secondary scholarly and journalistic sources describing pierced shell ornaments, deer teeth, and red ochre covering. [tier=gold indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Lagar Velho | Prehistoric, Megalithic, Dolmen | Britannica (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://donsmaps.com/lagar.html (corroboration)
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.96.13.7604 (corroboration)
- https://www.antropologi.info/blog/docs/anthropology/pdf/Loeb-Lagar_Velho.pdf (corroboration)
- 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 (corroboration)