New evidence suggests that Neanderthals buried their dead ANI | Updated: Dec 10, 2020 20:25 IST
Washington [US], December 10 (ANI): Is the concept of the burial of dead exclusive to our species or was it something that our closest ancient relatives, the Neanderthals practised? A new study indicates in favour of the latter hypothesis, but some scientists still remain a sceptic.
For the first time in Europe, at the CNRS and the Museum national d histoire naturelle in France and the University of the Basque Country in Spain, a multi-disciplinary team led by researchers have demonstrated using a wide variety of criteria that a Neanderthal child was buried, probably around 41,000 years ago, at the Ferrassie site in Dordogne.
Study Suggests Neanderthal Child Was Buried 41,000 Years Ago
Thursday, December 10, 2020
PARIS, FRANCE According to a statement released by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), an international team of scientists led by paleoanthropologists Antoine Balzeau of CNRS and Asier Gómez-Olivencia of the University of the Basque Country has reevaluated the remains of a Neanderthal child who was approximately two years old at the time of death. Some scholars have questioned whether the child’s remains, discovered in the 1970s, had been intentionally buried where they were unearthed in the La Ferrassie rock shelter in Dordogne, France. Six other Neanderthal skeletons were uncovered at the site in the early twentieth century. First, the researchers identified an additional 47 bones belonging to the child’s skeleton among the materials held at France’s National Archaeology Museum. Then they returned to the rock shelter with the 40-year-old excavation notes t
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