UM-Bot Posted December 17, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 17, 2013 A new study has revealed that burying the deceased was a behavior shared by our Neanderthal cousins. The findings were based on the discovery of Neanderthal remains at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in France back in 1908. The 13-year study involved an international team of archaeologists who analyzed the remains to determine the circumstances surrounding the original burial. Read More: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/259442/neanderthals-buried-their-dead-like-humans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Ford Posted December 17, 2013 #2 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Must be where Bigfoots learnt it from. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshadow60 Posted December 17, 2013 #3 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Of course Neanderthals buried their dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted December 17, 2013 #4 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Must be where Bigfoots learnt it from. I thought they ate their dead? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taun Posted December 17, 2013 #5 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I thought they ate their dead? Well, you know there are always leftovers... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Ford Posted December 17, 2013 #6 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I thought they ate their dead? LOL! So you remember that epic thread I started ages ago!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted December 17, 2013 #7 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Maybe they learned that if they buried their dead, the stink went away. Then after a while plants grew better there. Fertilizer was born! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshadow60 Posted December 17, 2013 #8 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Even chimpanzees mourn their dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithisco Posted December 17, 2013 #9 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I must be confused....because decades ago it was known and accepted that Neanderthals buried their dead, along with Grave tokens such as flowers and seeds. What is there to learn from this "new" (actually "old") study??? In fact why even start a new thread that is already established palaeontolgy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Smoke aLot Posted December 17, 2013 #10 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I think that results from most of latest 'research projects' were known 20-30 years ago. Also, those were written in encyclopedia books, but those books with images and short facts for children Or is it just me having imaginary deja vu something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted December 17, 2013 #11 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Maybe they learned that if they buried their dead, the stink went away. Then after a while plants grew better there. Fertilizer was born! I think this is how it started too... a rotting corpse has a small unlike anything else. I used to live in the sticks as a small child and never ever forgot the sickly sweet pungent smell of a rotting fox carcass.... Ive also smelt a deer carcass in a ditch...same sort of smell That and the desire to keep the predators away from the dead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshadow60 Posted December 17, 2013 #12 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Not to mention the flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calaf Posted December 17, 2013 #13 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I love the picture. All that's missing is the Christmas tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted December 17, 2013 #14 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I must be confused....because decades ago it was known and accepted that Neanderthals buried their dead, along with Grave tokens such as flowers and seeds. What is there to learn from this "new" (actually "old") study??? In fact why even start a new thread that is already established palaeontolgy? Off hand, there's still a idea that these are the results of contamination and not purposeful burial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted December 18, 2013 #15 Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) Wonder if any of the bones were female or children,it is said the Neanderthals men took the caves, left the women and children out in the cold to die, is why they went extinct.They found many bones of women and children out side of the caves. A specie has to have a off spring to survive. Edited December 18, 2013 by docyabut2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neognosis Posted December 18, 2013 #16 Share Posted December 18, 2013 ,it is said the Neanderthals men took the caves , left the women and children out in the cold to die, is why they went extinct. Who says this? Because it's ridiculous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted December 18, 2013 #17 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Wonder if any of the bones were female or children,it is said the Neanderthals men took the caves, left the women and children out in the cold to die, is why they went extinct.They found many bones of women and children out side of the caves. A specie has to have a off spring to survive. That's a new one on me, apes are marked by our communal and social behaviors. Where did you read this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted December 18, 2013 #18 Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) That's a new one on me, apes are marked by our communal and social behaviors. Where did you read this? Read it some where in the study of some of the bones that were found.My PC crashed and I did have some of those references. Edited December 18, 2013 by docyabut2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neognosis Posted December 18, 2013 #19 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Source? Can anyone find this anywhere? First, let's verify that they are finding women and children outside caves. Then we can shoot holes in the absurd conclusion that it is because males kicked them out to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted December 18, 2013 #20 Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) The researchers found more Neanderthal remains two children and one adult as well as some bison and reindeer bones in a cave is what they are going by, but there is another find and report of many infants bones and women found out side of some of these caves, if I can ever find it again. http://www.foxnews.c...ied-their-dead/ Edited December 18, 2013 by docyabut2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra99 Posted December 18, 2013 #21 Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) Wonder if any of the bones were female or children,it is said the Neanderthals men took the caves, left the women and children out in the cold to die, is why they went extinct.They found many bones of women and children out side of the caves. A specie has to have a off spring to survive. How would the species survive for tens of thousands of years in the first place if this was the case...a ridiculous theory. Treatment of corpses maybe. Edited December 18, 2013 by zebra99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted December 18, 2013 #22 Share Posted December 18, 2013 How would the species survive for tens of thousands of years in the first place if this was the case...a ridiculous theory. Treatment of corpses maybe. but you have to agree that in order for a specie to survive a off spring has to survive, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted December 18, 2013 #23 Share Posted December 18, 2013 but you have to agree that in order for a specie to survive a off spring has to survive, Well duh, of course. Which is what makes the idea bizarre. Neanderthals were successful for a very long period of time before our ancestors for whatever reason. Such behavior would have caused them t become extinct much earlier. To, with what we know of both human behavior and ape behavior makes the idea untenable. Of course, that's with taking modern understandings into account. It doesn't sound that different from earlier ideas that tried to paint them as brutes and savages. Was this a recent paper? It'd surprise me if it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docyabut2 Posted December 18, 2013 #24 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Well duh, of course. Which is what makes the idea bizarre. Neanderthals were successful for a very long period of time before our ancestors for whatever reason. Such behavior would have caused them t become extinct much earlier. To, with what we know of both human behavior and ape behavior makes the idea untenable. Of course, that's with taking modern understandings into account. It doesn't sound that different from earlier ideas that tried to paint them as brutes and savages. Was this a recent paper? It'd surprise me if it was. The extent of the last ice age in Europe 20,000 to 70,000 years got a little colder . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted December 18, 2013 #25 Share Posted December 18, 2013 The extent of the last ice age in Europe 20,000 to 70,000 years got a little colder . Ok, could you explain your point here a bit? Neanderthals were more successful during the Ice Age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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