Neanderthals – Shaman of Avalon

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Rise and Fall of the Planet of the Apes

By: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut August 4, 2011April 12, 2016

Ancestorsburial rituals, Cro-Magnon, intelligence, Neanderthals, simulacra, symbolic thought6 Comments

There’s recently been a move within the fields of archaeology and anthropology to downplay the capacity for symbolic thought of the Neanderthals, and to think of them as brainless, club-carrying buffoons from the Planet of the Apes. However, it is only our post-hoc value judgements that equate symbolic expression with ‘progress’.

Burial Rites of the Neanderthals

By: Annie Dieu-Le-Veut April 23, 2011January 16, 2015

Ancestors, Tombs and wombsburial rites, Neanderthals, Sima de las PalomasLeave a Comment

A paper was published in 2011 by Quaternary International about likely evidence for burial rites at the 50,000-year-old Neanderthal burial ground, Sima de las Palomas in Murcia, Southeast Spain.