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[Gawdzilla Sama]

However there are a few examples of particular care been taken in the burial itself, especially what appears to be very specific arrangements of bones in the burial pit

Is there evidence that they buried flowers with the deceased? (Old memory, sorry.)

 

[MG1962]

Is there evidence that they buried flowers with the deceased? (Old memory, sorry.)

I dont believe so - but one feature thats been seen is the amount of de-fleshing of the bones before arrangement. The biggest problem is we can't extrapolate what that has meant because we really have no way of understanding how they viewed the world or what they thought

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

The "flower burial" evidence comes from one of the Shanidar sites that smartcooky mentioned. The flowers aren't conclusively placed by human activity though.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanidar_Cave#Shanidar_4.2C_the_.22flower_burial.22