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The Neanderthals

In Our Time

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Neantotiles and the Origins of Spirituality

It's very difficult to be sure that neantotiles are burying their dead as early modern humans did. One view is that this was just really extending that care that they've given people during their life into their death. So you bury them to in a sense save them and then later on perhaps this does become added into with a view of an afterlife. Later on we do find things in the graves with the dead both for modern humans and neantotile. And so then there are tributes either tributes in there to these individuals or things that they will need in their afterlife.

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