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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Shanidar burial: pollen was natural, not ritual Neanderthal 'flower burials' theory debunked 9.10.15 http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.be/2015/10/neanderthal-flower-burial s-theory.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+The ArchaeologyNewsNetwork+(The+Archaeology+News+Network)#.VhoU8c6ACt8 Theories that Hn buried their dead with flower-filled funeral rites have been called into question by new research: natural processes are still depositing pollen in the same way in the same caves. In the 1950s & 60s, pollen analyst Josette Leroi-Gourhan found clumps of pollen & flowers in a Hn burial in Shanidar Cave in Iraq, she deduced from their variety & concentration that animals were unlikely to have placed them there: they must have been part of a ritual. Ralph Solecki (excavation leader, "Shanidar, The First Flower People" 1971): "With the finding of flowers in association with Hn, we are brought suddenly to the realization that the universality of mankind & the love of beauty go beyond the boundary of our own species. No longer can we deny the early men the full range of human feelings & experience." The difficulty of digging in Iraq in the intervening time has made it difficult to re-examine the site, but John Moores cs (2015 Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology) made the trip recently: they found similar buildup of pollen to that found in the burial on the surface, which they attribute to the action of bees: the similar pollen found under the surface by the Solecki expedition is simply bee-pollen & wind-blown vegetation, that has been covered up over the last 60 ka since the burial. It is still evident from the Shanidar burials & other sites that Hn took considerable care over the internment of the dead: They kept them safe from scavengers & marked the sites with carved stone ornaments, but sadly the poetic image of flower-laden prehistoric graves seems to be far less likely now. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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