Prehistoric Romeo and Juliet?

[Pardalis]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/07/prehistoric.love.ap/index.html

"As far as we know, it's unique," Menotti told The Associated Press by telephone from Milan. "Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging."

"The Neolithic is a very formative period for our society," he said. "It was when the roots of our religious sentiment were formed."

 

[shemp]

How do we know it wasn't Romeo and Julio? Evidences?

 

[bigred]

They never hugged, dummy. Just took poison and whined a lot, stuff like that.

It is weird that they were fossilized like that. I suspect they died/were killed and were just laid together (since they were a "couple") someplace away from everything vs dying in an embrace.

 

[BPSCG]

It is weird that they were fossilized like that. I suspect they died/were killed and were just laid together (since they were a "couple") someplace away from everything vs dying in an embrace.

Well, if that's the way they were when her husband walked in on them...

 

[headscratcher4]

They never hugged, dummy. Just took poison and whined a lot, stuff like that.

It is weird that they were fossilized like that. I suspect they died/were killed and were just laid together (since they were a "couple") someplace away from everything vs dying in an embrace.

I saw the Zeferelli movie...they did more than hug.

 

[Pardalis]

How do we know it wasn't Romeo and Julio? Evidences?

I think they determined they were female and male.

It is weird that they were fossilized like that. I suspect they died/were killed and were just laid together (since they were a "couple") someplace away from everything vs dying in an embrace.

Perhaps, I think it will be interesting to learn if they did die this way or were buried together. They may be brother and sister, a loving couple, or maybe they just died in fright but either way it's interesting.

 

[shemp]

O.J. did it.