Reposted by Ilka Knüppel
When did hominins stop treating corpses like trash? Pleistocene ancestors broke animal ecology rules by hauling kin into subterranean voids and digging graves.
"The Architecture of the Abyss" traces 400k yrs of grief & archaeothanatology:
deephistory.substack.com/p/the-archit...
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The Architecture of the Abyss: How Death Made Us Human
From Neanderthal flower myths and Pleistocene murder mysteries to the forensic reality of the Rising Star Cave: A 400,000-year journey into the origins of grief, semiotics, and the grave.