I have very little info on Paleolithic info in my resources.
2006-08-26 06:33:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
He buried his dead carefully and with artifacts (for the afterlife)
2006-08-26 19:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking, none. Burial artifacts and paintings can tell us a lot, but they cannot show belief. We can't really know what such people were thinking when they buried their dead. We don't know what it meant to place a spear point next to a person's remains. Frankly, that is lost to us. We can make all the suppositions we want, but are we just projecting contemporary belief back in time?
2006-08-27 21:27:36 · answer #2 · answered by Sir Psycho Sexy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have no evidence that Palaeolithic man believed in an afterlife. It is not until the Neolithic period that cave paintings and burial methods give indications that that such a belief had developed.
2006-08-26 23:11:41 · answer #3 · answered by U.K.Export 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Paintings in Lascaux (France) shew dead people in another world. They were buried with their belongs.
2006-08-26 20:26:58 · answer #4 · answered by ceabbud 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋