Anthropology Says the Burial Rituals of Neanderthals Were Sophisticated Enough to Require Symbolic Thinking That Should Not Have Existed at the Time
Archaeologists never expected Neanderthals to behave like us in matters of life and death. Yet again and again, their bones keep turning up in places that look suspiciously like planned graves, surrounded by traces of care, ritual, and maybe even grief. It is as if a supposedly “primitive” cousin quietly broke the rules of prehistory ...









