RE: Question: ancient burials.
April 21, 2019 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2019 at 4:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's the core of difference between burial and disposal, yeah.
The burials give us a "no later than" date - it's assumed that people thought things like this (and were doing things like this) before we find evidence of it. The chances that we happen to have found the very first example of anything are monumentally low.
(April 21, 2019 at 1:50 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: So my guess is the earliest ancestors of notion of afterlife and soul long predated the first specifically ritualistic burial.
The burials give us a "no later than" date - it's assumed that people thought things like this (and were doing things like this) before we find evidence of it. The chances that we happen to have found the very first example of anything are monumentally low.
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