Burial Practices Of Neanderthal Usuals

At some point in our lives, we all come to realize that death is a part of life. Cultural diversity provides a wide variety of lifestyles and traditions for each of the unique groups of people in our world. Within these different cultures, the rituals associated with death and burial can also be uniquely diverse. Many consider ritualistic traditions that differ from their own to be somewhat strange and often perceive them as unnatural. A prime example would be the burial rituals of the Native American people.

The Egyptians also worried very much about the after life and made many preparations before the afterlife. There graves were very important to them, and they also did much to keep them from decaying after they passed. That is why they had the idea of mummification to allow them to not decay long after they passed. We also pay a lot of money to allow us to keep from decaying on our burials and the coffins.

Neanderthal burials that have been excavated and researched in the past have produced convincing evidence suggesting that they exhibited similar characteristics to humans when it comes to religiosity. Nikki Basset explains in her article about burial rituals that “Gargett recognized that often Neanderthals were believed to have buried their dead and performed rituals that suggest an emotional capacity equal to our own.” (basset) The common theme and emotional capacity that Gargett was speaking of was that of death, and that “…they treated death similarly to other people, as an extension of life, and thus they believed that people post-mortem play similar social roles as in everyday life.”

The text Burial Rites written by Hannah Kent focuses on the true story of the last woman to be executed in Iceland, her punishment for playing part in the murder of two men. She is sent to wait out her days on the farm of a district officer, Jón Jónsson with his two daughters and wife. Naturally, the family are horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst. Borne from this, the family refuse to talk to her. A young man, Toti is appointed as her spiritual guardian in the last days of her life, throughout the text, he attempts to redeem her soul by asking her to recount her life.

Burial has long been considered an important component of death; it is the mourners’ final encounter with the recognizable, substantial body of the deceased. Every culture has to determine how to deal with the physical remains of the dead, to find a way to honour their memory, and to go on living in a society that is now deprived of one of its members. Burial traditions and practices have developed throughout history and around the world to meet this human need. This paper will examine Jewish death and burial practices from the Old Testament, the Gospels, and other New Testament accounts, as well as archaeological evidence from first century Palestine; this evidence, when compared to recent arguments against the burial of

According to “Decoding Neanderthals’ they were consider primitive; without language and art or a high level of thinking. These species hunted by brute force with a simple stone tool. Also, that their intellect cannot be associated or compared with modern humans because their behavior was too way primitive. They began to disappear 40,000 years ago as modern humans came on the scene, stated by “Decoding Neanderthals” documentary movie. However, according to the genetic evidence shows a mysterious presence related with the modern humans genes. Neanderthal’s psychical features demonstrate some facts that these Homo species possessed intelligence. For example, big noses, bulky physiques-adaptation to cold, shorter than Homo sapiens, but bones were thicker, oblique forehead and heavy eyebrows. Also, often Neanderthal’s craniums are larger than modern humans. They had larger ankle joint, elbow joint and shorter forearm, broader ribcage and lower cranium. They were the most advanced group of primates, except modern humans. Neanderthals weren’t fewer intelligent than modern people; they had clothes and had some kind of language. Neanderthal living space showed complex use of the instrument, abstract thoughts and speech, burial of their dead and manufactured primitive art objects. Some stereotypes against these species are that they had limited stone tools and no art or personal ornaments; therefore they seemed less advanced than modern humans. Also, stereotyping their intelligence

The most recent ancestor to the modern human, Homo neanderthalensis existed between 300,000 and 35,000 years ago. Originating in Africa, ancestors of the early Neanderthals migrated northwards almost 800,000 years ago. These migrants colonized much of the Old World with the majority based in Europe and small groups scattered throughout the Middle East and Asia. Historically, the Neanderthals were among the most resiliant creatures to exist on Earth. As a population, they thrived during the European ice age 40,000 years ago. This ice age enveloped the majority of Northern and Central Europe and due to their physique were the Neanderthals were able to surive. Physcially, the Neanderthals were larger and more muscular than today’s human

In Ancient China and Egypt, they had very strict burial customs. Both cultures had a belief that there was an afterlife, yet both cultures were vastly different when it came to burying people. Mummification played a major role to the Egyptians. Since travelling to the afterlife was very complicated, they had a book of the dead it was a very important book full of powerful spells used to help a dead person reach the afterlife. Many archeologists have found copies of the book of the dead in many tombs.

According to the consensus view, the Neanderthals lived 250,000 to 30,000 years BP (Before the Present), they were very primitive, looked more like gorillas than men, led a short brutish life, and died on average at the age of forty-five. According to my research, they were built more powerfully than modern Humans. Their thicker tendons and ligaments, attached to heavier bones, gave them superior strength, and the capacity of leaping high to hunt large animals. One of their back muscles, that Humans have lost, added tremendous force and precision for throwing an object such as a lance, or for handling a sword. Their voluminous rib cage gave superior stamina during any effort. Their eyesight was much sharper than that of modern Humans'

The African folktale, Why Dead People are Buried, comes from the country of Nigeria. The folktale is about the Creator who gives the dog a message to bring into town. The message is that whenever someone dies, they should be placed in a compound with wood ashes over it. But, on the way into town, the dog got distracted and did not deliver the message. So, the Creator sent the sheep into town with the same message.

Mankind’s history of burial practices and funeral customs are as old as civilization itself. There is no specific way to planning a funeral. Every civilization and culture has provided for their dead in different ways. Religion and personal beliefs play an important role in the burial practices and funeral customs of a given culture or civilization. Furthermore, each civilization and cultured ever studied have three things in common: some type of funeral rites, rituals, and ceremonies; A sacred place for the dead; and memorialization of the dead. As far back as the time of Christ, burials have been noted to take place. In time burial and funeral customs have become very distinct, interesting and

‘Dead & Buried’ is a creepy and suspenseful American horror from 1981, originally declared by UK censors in the early 1980s to be a ‘Video Nasty’ (although it was later acquitted of obscenity charges). The film comes with an excellent pedigree, being directed by Gary Sherman (responsible for ‘Poltergeist III’, ‘Raw Meat’ and ‘Vice Squad’) and written by Dan O’Bannon (director of ‘The Resurrected’ and ‘The Return of the Living Dead’; writer of ‘Alien’, ‘Dark Star’, ‘Lifeforce’ and ‘Total Recall’) and Ronald Shusett (writer of ‘Above the Law’, ‘The Final Terror’, ‘Freejack’ and ‘Total Recall’). The town of Potter’s Bluff (a reference to the colloquial ‘Potter’s Field’, a place where the dead are buried?) seems to exist on the EC Comics-H.P.

Burial is a tradition of today’s modern humans. Humans bury other humans who have died. Why? Different cultures have different reasons, but it is a global phenomenon. The question that anthropologists ask is if it is a phenomenon unique to modern humans or if it was a practice common with pre-human ancestors. A way to answer this question is by looking to Neanderthals, a cousin of sorts to modern day Homo sapiens. If they buried their dead, then it can be implied that the common ancestor between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens also buried their dead. This question is explored briefly by Chris Stringer in his book Lone Survivors: How We Came to be the Only Humans on Earth and further discussed in the article “Evidence supporting an Intentional Neanderthal Burial at La Chapelle-aux-Saints” written by William Rendu et al. reporting on evidence garnered on a twelve year fieldwork project.

Today the society is looking for ways to ease life and to find solutions for problems which oppress our lives and make it hard to live through. Because of many reasons, the traditional burials in this century are becoming a problem. (Prothero,2001). The fact that they cover a lot of land to build cemeteries and other things that are attached to these traditional burials is enough for us to search for a practical solution. About a century ago the term "cremation" was unknown to many people. It is believed that it began to be practiced during the early Stone Age and still exists today. Since that time cremations have been made all

As with most other Pauline attributed documents, 1 Corinthians is believed to be a single document that addresses salient topics and rationalizes Paul’s view of faithfulness to Christ with Corinth citizens. The newly founded church of Corinth was in correspondence with Paul requesting his answers to questions they posed on topics ranging from marriage to the resurrection of the dead; the latter being one of the most highlighted in 1 Corinthians. Paul’s assurance of resurrection illustrates a concern for Corinth as he admonishes their disbelief in resurrection of the dead with a series of explanations as to why such doubt would render the faith of Christ “in vain”. Given the context of the time, Paul’s correspondence with Corinth clearly