Early human burials
 

Graeber / Wengrow 15: "[T]here is reason to believe that during the Palaeolithic, only rather unusual individuals were buried at all"
 
103: "we are not dealing with a case of some people being buried with rich grave goods and most others not being buried at all. The very practice of burying bodies intact, and clothed, appears to have been exceptional in the Upper Paleolithic. Most corpses were treated in completely different ways: de-fleshed, broken up, curated, or even processed into jewellry and artefacts"
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #prehistory, #death

> created May 2, 2024 at 11:03:15 AM


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