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.
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