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BuckyE
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Re: Neanderthals v Humans
Nov 02, 2012, 17:12
tomwatts wrote:
I'm trying to envisage something that could precede the long barrows/stone rows of Dartmoor etc...


Just been reading Barry Cunliffe's EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS, 9,000 BC -- AD 1,000. Fascinating disccussion therein about the MESOlithic occupants of Brittany and Portugal accumulating huge shell middens. In which they apparently buried some few of their relatives.

Page 83: "This surprisingly sophisticated practice of collective burial lies at the beginning of a tradition that was to flourish in the region over the next two thousand years, later manifesting itself in monumental megalithic tombs."

Neato!
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