78,000 Years Ago
“Mtoto’s burial, to experts it is believed the child was around three years old when they died and was likely wrapped in a shroud and had their head on a pillow. Besides the seemingly deliberate position of the body, the team noticed a few clues that suggested the child was swaddled in cloth, possibly with the intention of preserving the corpse. They also speculate the body was placed in a cave fissure — known as funerary caching — before being covered with sediment.” ref, ref
At Border Cave, a “savanna-woodland” vegetation community is implied before 100,000 years ago and the matching density of stone tools vary considerably through time, with high frequencies of stone blades occurring before 100,000 years ago. ref
Animism: 78,000 Years Old Deliberate Burial of a Human Child in Kenya, Africa
74,000 years ago
Around 74,000 years ago, in Border Cave, South Africa, the burial of a 4 to 6-month-old child was found in a pit with a personal ornament, a perforated Conus shell. ref
Border Cave is the only African site covering a time span of 250,000 years, with Middle Stone Age human remains, and also records the first emergence of key cultural innovations such as things like grass bedding dated between 70,000 to 30,000 years ago. ref
In South Africa, some of the oldest beads are made of marine shells that come from the Still Bay layers of Blombos Cave date back to around 72,000 years ago, and engraved ostrich eggshells dated to around 60,000 years ago from Diepkloof in South Africa. Some of the oldest beads made of non-marine shells involve ostrich eggshells and from Border Cave, there are some that date to around 42,000 years ago. Beads were also collected from the late MSA/early LSA context of similar age at Apollo 11 and from layers associated with MSA at Boomplaas Cave. Furthermore, beads were also reported from the MSA at Cave of Hearths. Other sub-contemporaneous beads have been recovered north of South Africa. ref
The pulses of occupation seem to have occurred between about 200,000 to 38,000 years ago, with Middle Stone Age 1 Polokwane/Pietersburg industries accumulated between 227,000 to 77,000 years ago, Middle Stone Age 2 Howiesons Poort between 74 and 60 kya, Middle Stone Age 3 post-Howiesons Poort between 60 and 39 kya, and Early Later Stone Age after about 39,000 years ago. ref
Pietersburg has been identified at sites such as:
Besides Cave of Hearths, Bushman Rock Shelter, Mwulu’s Cave, Olieboomspoort Shelter, Rainbow Cave, and several others, which suggests this stone tool tradition may represent a regional expression occurring in the interior of South Africa, south of the Limpopo River. Pietersburg is seen first at the Bushman Rock Shelter on the north-eastern fringe of the Drakensberg mountain range, in the Limpopo Province which could possibly tell us something about population movements, with dates from 97,000-75,000 years ago to 91,000- 73,000 years ago. ref
Around 74,000 years ago, in Border Cave, South Africa, the burial of a 4 to 6-month-old child was found in an oval pit with a personal ornament, a perforated Conus shell. ref
34,000 years ago
Burials
“Graves 1 and 2 at Sungir are described as “the most spectacular” among European Gravettian burials. The adult male was buried in what is called Grave 1 and the two adolescent children in Grave 2, placed head-to-head, together with an adult femur filled with red ochre. The three people buried at Sungir were all adorned with elaborate grave goods that included ivory-beaded jewelry, clothing, and spears. More than 13,000 beads were found (which would have taken 10,000 hours to produce). Red ochre, an important ritual material associated with burials at this time, covered the burials. The children are considered a twin burial, thought to have a ritual purpose, possibly sacrifice. The findings of such complete skeletons are rare in the late Stone Age, and indicate the high status of the male adult and children. The children had the same mtDNA, which may indicate the same maternal lineage, but new analyses determined they were not siblings. The site is one of the earliest examples of ritual burials and constitutes important evidence of the antiquity of human religious practices. The extraordinary collection of grave goods, the position of the bodies, and other factors all indicate it was a burial of high importance. Two other remains at the site are partial skeletons.” ref
34,000-30,000 year-old to remains, carbon analysis dates between 34,050-30,550 BCE, and by DNA analysis at 34,000. The mortuary site contains a few extremely elaborate burials one of which involved a juvenile and an adolescent, approximately 10 and 12 years old, buried head to head. The children had the same mtDNA, which may indicate the same maternal lineage. The individuals at Sungir are genetically closest to each other and show closest genetic affinity to the individuals from Kostenki, while showing closer affinity to the individual from Kostenki 12 than to the individual from Kostenki 14. The Sungir individuals descended from a lineage that was related to the individual from Kostenki 14, but were not directly related. The individual from Kostenki 12 was also found to be closer to the Sungir individuals than to the individual from Kostenki 14. The Sungir individuals also show close genetic affinity to various individuals belonging to Vestonice Cluster buried in a Gravettian context, such as those excavated from Dolní Věstonice. And mtDNA analysis shows that the four individuals tested from Sungir belong to mtDNA Haplogroup U. ref
31,000-27,000 Years Ago
Burials
“A mammoth shoulder blade was uncovered in the south-eastern part of the excavation area, on the underside of which clear traces of processing could be seen: the shoulder bone had been removed by several evenly executed blows with a tool. Supported laterally on a chip of mammoth ivory, this shoulder blade formed the cover of an oval burial pit, in which the skeletal remains of two infants, some of which were three-dimensional, were found (burial 1). These were probably twins who had died during or shortly after birth. Both were placed in a squatting position with their legs sharply bent, skulls facing north, faces facing east. At least 35 ivory beads, which could have been part of a necklace or a belt, lay in the pelvic area of
the infant lying to the west. The ocher scattering typical of Gravettian burials was also found here, the sharply defined color boundaries in the surrounding sediment also suggest that the children were wrapped in leather or fur before they were deposited. Of the more than 2,200 lithic artifacts, only 209 pieces could be unequivocally assigned with estimates that the majority of them were mixed with the Aurignacian -era Krems-Hundsteig finds cannot be ruled out. After an intensive examination of all parts, even if in addition to scrapers, the knives and gravers, which are often microlithic, and the micro saws typical of Pavlovia, a number of Dufour lamellas were found were.” ref
“In addition to several thousand stone artifacts and faunal remains, two clay objects, one rib and tusk fragment painted with red chalk, and two infant graves were recovered. After a 3D model was created using a structured light scanner, work began to uncover the 32,000-year-old bones and artifacts from the burial block. Another burial pit (burial 2) was uncovered. At a distance of 1.5 m from burial 1, the bones of an approximately 3-month-old infant were found on the same horizon (AH 4.3). Since no cover had been used here, burial 2 was found to be in a less good state of preservation, but the identical type of placement with bent legs, ocher scattering, and a face pointing east could be proven beyond any doubt. In contrast to burial 1, the skull here was oriented to the south. A 7 cm long ivory pin uncovered in the head area could have been used to close the hide or leather case.” ref
31,000-27,000 Years Ago – (Austria), Krems-Wachtberg in Lower Austria, Two separate pits, one containing the remains of two infants and the other of a single baby, were discovered at the same Stone Age camp. Infants may have been considered equal members of prehistoric society, according to an analysis of burial pits, as Both graves were decorated with beads and covered in red ochre, a pigment commonly used by prehistoric peoples as a grave offering when they buried adults. From Pavlovian, in ven tories we know numerous pendants made of animal teeth, most frequently discovered in burials. They also occur in graves of small children, as this burial from Krems-Wachtberg. Pendants made from the teeth of other species, such as reindeer or bear, are rarely found. ref, ref, ref
26,000 years ago
26,000 years ago – “Although there were many burials at Balzi Rossi or Grimaldi Caves (Liguria, Italy) the grave with the woman (left) and a teenager (right) dated to around 26,000 years ago – from Grotto of Children cave.” ref
“Balzi Rossi is a popular prehistoric site due to the significant findings. It’s a few meters from shore at the bottom of a red limestone wall with caves and grottos. From these caves have been recovered manufacturers made of bones and stone, fireplaces, burials, and animal remains dating from Lower Paleolithic to latest Prehistory.” ref
“The Balzi Rossi complex, also known as Grimaldi Caves, includes more than ten sites that yielded abundant archaeological remains spanning a wide chronological range from the Middle Pleistocene to the Early Holocene.” ref
“The several burials, are of the Cro-Magnon type or European early modern humans, Epigravettian (like the children highlighted by Rivière and the female skeleton discovered in the upper layers of the children’s cave), and Gravettian as well as Aurignacian.” ref
“European early modern humans (EEMH) in the context of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe refers to the early presence of anatomically modern humans in Europe. The term “early modern” is usually taken to include fossils of the Bohunician, Ahmarian, Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean, and Magdalenian, extending throughout the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), covering the period of roughly 48,000 to 15,000 years ago, usually referred to as the Cro-Magnon. The earliest sites in Europe dated 48,000 years ago are Riparo Mochi (Italy), Geissenklösterle (Germany), and Isturitz (France).” ref
20,000 years ago
20,000 years ago – “In the Grotta dei Fanciulli at the Balzi Rossi complex, instead, the bodies of two children aged between 2 and 3 years were found. The skeletons are arranged next to each other and at the level of the hip and femur many pierced marine shells ( Nassa neritea ) have been found that probably were part of a funerary ornament.” ref
“The triple burial, consisting of three skeletons found in the large Barma, holding an adult male, a young man, and a teenager are arranged in parallel in the same trench from east to west, and buried with a rich grave outfit including sea shells, flint blades and deer canines; the dating of the burial dates to about 20,000 years ago.” ref
“Also characteristic is the Triple Burial, in which three individuals were buried in the same pit, one next to the other, sprinkled with red ocher and with a rich funerary outfit. It seems that of the three two are younger, while the third is considerably older. The same anatomical peculiarities found on the right side of the frontal bone of all three skulls suggest a genetic relationship between individuals. The oldest individual was about six feet high and possessed a skeletal structure of considerable strength. The funeral outfit was instead made up of large onesstone blades, necklaces, spines of fish, canines of deer, pendants in ivory decorated with hollow lines and perforated shells (still Nassa neritea ).” ref
“Detail of the funeral kit of the Triple Burial, and among the various discoveries, the most interesting and recent is that of the discovery of the so-called Negroids of Grimaldi, or a couple of individuals (a teenager and an adult woman) having somatic traits different from those of other individuals. The adolescent had his head adorned with marine shells ( Nassa neritea ), and the woman had the same shells near her wrist and left elbow, perhaps originally bracelets. The burials took place at two different times.” ref
“All the burials can be dated back to the period called Gravettian or Epigravettian, a temporal gap from 29,000 to 19,000 years ago.” ref
12,000 years ago
12,707–12,556-year-old child remains at a burial site in North America. Anzick-1 is the name given to the remains of Paleo-Indian male infant found in western Montana, remains revealed Siberian ancestry and a close genetic relationship to modern Native Americans, including those of Central and South America. These findings support the hypothesis that modern Native Americans are descended from Asian populations who crossed Beringia between 32,000 and 18,000 years ago. buried under numerous tools: 100 stone tools and 15 remnants of tools made of bone. The site contained hundreds of stone projectile points, blades, and bifaces, as well as the remains of two juveniles. Some of the artifacts were covered in red ocher. The stone points were identified as part of the Clovis Complex because of their distinct shape and size. ref
11,000 years ago
11,500-year-old child remains of a six-week-old baby girl in a burial pit in central Alaska whos DNA indicated there was just a single wave of migration into the Americas across a land bridge, now submerged, that spanned the Bering Strait and connected Siberia to Alaska during the Ice Age. The girl was found alongside remains of an even-younger female infant, possibly a first cousin, whose genome the researchers could not sequence. Both were covered in red ochre and next to decorated antler rods. ref
11,000 years ago
11,200 years ago – “(Jordan) from Wadi Feynan in southern Jordan, human burials found, come from the early Neolithic site of WF16 dates to between 11,500 and 10,200 and these burials include infants and children whose bodies were buried into graves cut through the floors of houses and then sealed with mud plaster. most in a sleeping position, on their side with their knees tucked up and their heads resting on their hands. Furthermore, some of the graves were opened for a second burial to be inserted, and, in some occasions, bones were removed, (could this express early skull cult behaviors).” ref
“Moreover, to further this thinking is also found in how there is evidence that skulls were displayed within some of the houses, according to the scholar, who said that, in some cases, the dead were brought to WF16 for burial as researchers discovered packages of bones that had been wrapped in gypsum plaster and textiles made from vegetable fibres. Likewise, in some cases, large flint blades were positioned on the chest, and, in others, shell beads appear to have been with the bones, possibly from necklaces of bracelets that had been worn.” ref
9,000 years ago
9,000 years ago – “(Isreal) site discovered in Motza, at the foot of the Jerusalem hills. The site, features dozens of stone houses, grander buildings that may have been temples, and skeletal remains. Domestic houses in which the hoi polloi lived didn’t have particularly invested flooring beyond dirt or basic plaster. The public places in prehistoric Motza had better plastering, colored red. one thing they ate that may allude to cultural connections is sheep, which were only domesticated around 10,000 to 11,000 years ago and not exactly next door, but in Anatolia.” ref
“The floors of the houses were made of tightly-packed plaster and underneath was least 10 people were found buried, lying in fetal positions. A third were men. A third were women. And, a third were children and babies. Which shows, Khalaily explains, that for the first known time in human history, children were considered something other than disposable. “During the transitional time between hunting and gathering to settlement, the attitude towards children, in life and death, changed,” he explains the theory. No earlier burials of children have been found in the ariea.” ref
7,000 years ago
“7,630 and 7,725 years old burial of a woman In Siberia, who appears to have died with her twins during childbirth. The woman appeared to be between 20 and 25 at the time of her death and part ceremonies of the Swifterbant people.” ref
6,000 years ago
“6,000-year-old grave of an infant between newborn and six months old in the arms of a woman 20 to 30-year-old likely its mother in the Netherlands. hunter-gatherers who lived along the banks of the river Vecht.” ref
“The skeleton of a woman from the Ertebølle culture woman with a child from the settlement on Bøgebakken in Vedbæk, Denmark. The woman was about 18 years old, when she died. The child was laid to rest on a spread out swan’s wing. A flint knife at the hip indicates that it was a boy. The red soil around the mother’s head and hips and around the dead child may be due ocher-colored clothing. Attached to these were many tooth beads, which are seen as an irregular lump on the left of the woman’s head. Other tooth beads can be glimpsed in the ground around her hips – Gammel Holtegård Museum north of Copenhagen. Photo Gyros.” ref
“The Ertebølle culture (7,400-5,900 years ago) is of a general type called Late Mesolithic, of which other examples can be found in Swifterbant culture, Zedmar culture, Narva culture and in Russia. Some would include the Nøstvet culture and Lihult culture to the north as well. The various locations seem fragmented and isolated, but that characteristic may be an accident of discovery. Perhaps if all the submarine sites were known, a continuous coastal culture would appear from the Netherlands to the likes of Russia. The Ertebølle population settled on promontories, near or on beaches, on islands and along rivers and estuaries away from the dense forests. The environment most like the then range of the Ertebølle is the Wadden Sea region of the North Sea from the Netherlands to Denmark.” ref
“Due to chance fluctuations in the sea level during Ertebølle occupation of the coast and subsequently, many of the Ertebølle cultural sites are currently under 3m-4m of water. Cemeteries, such as the ones at Vedbæk and Skateholm, give a “sedentary” character to the settlements. Red ochre and deer antlers were placed in some graves, but not others. Some social distinctions may, therefore, have been made. There was some appreciation of sexual dimorphism: the women wore necklaces and belts of animal teeth and shells. No special body position was used. Both burial and cremation were practiced. At Møllegabet, an individual was buried in a dugout, which some see as the beginning of Scandinavian boat burials.” ref
4,000 years ago
“4,600-year-old, Group burial of a 4,600-year-old nuclear family, in Germany with the children (a boy of 8-9 and a boy of 5-4 years) buried facing their parents. The burials, discovered and excavated at Eulau, Saxony-Anhalt, were also unusual for the great care taken in the treatment of the dead. The remains of thirteen individuals were found in total, all of whom had been interned simultaneously. Intriguingly, the arrangement of the dead seemed to mirror their relations in life. Several pairs of individuals were buried face-to-face with arms and hands interlinked in many cases. All the burials contained children ranging from newborns up to 10 years of age and adults of around 30 years or older. Interestingly, there were no adolescents or young adults. Many showed injuries that indicated they were the victims of a violent raid.” ref
4,000 years ago
“Grave oareaerian noblewoman with a child up to 4,500 years old, remains of a ‘noblewoman’ from the ancient Okunev Culture was made in the Republic of Khakassia. The Okunev people are seen as the Siberian ethnic grouping most closely related to Native Americans. The mysterious ancient culture was ‘unparalleled’ in Siberia in terms of its artistic richness and diversity, according to experts. Undisturbed by pillaging grave robbers, the burial site of the woman, also containing the remains of a child, offers a wealth of clues about the life of these ancient people. ref
3,000 years ago
“Around 3,950-3,539 years ago, at Sidon, Lebanon. From 19 discrete burial units a total of 31 individuals, included ‘warrior’ burials in constructed graves containing bronze weapons, with high mortality during infancy and early childhood and a peak in adult mortality during early adulthood. There is a conspicuous occurrence of unusual dental traits. Jar burials, all found with remains of sub-adult individuals, represent a burial practice applied to children of a wide age range. Many burials are associated with faunal remains, mostly of sheep or goats, but also of large ungulates. The burial jars found in copper-age Sidon had all contained adults. However, there is burial of a child that had been interred with a necklace around its neck. The fact of the child’s burial, with a funerary vessel and jewelry, could be indicative of status, or of the value attributed to children.” ref, ref
“Jar burial: burials where the corpse is placed into a large earthenware and then is interred. Jar burial can be traced to various regions, including India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Palestine, Taiwan, Japan, Cambodia, Iran, Syria, Sumatra, Egypt, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. These differing locations call for different methods, accouterments, and/or rationale behind the jar burial practices.” ref
3,000 years ago
“3,500-Year-Old Child Burials Unearthed at Ancient Egyptian, four ancient child graves at Gebel el-Silsila, the site of a former Egyptian quarry that dates back 3,500 years. The finding provides new insights on what life may have been like at this ancient work site.” ref
3,000 years ago
“3000-year-old burial of child discovered in Northern Bulgaria, near Novgrad, Tsenovo, in the central part of Northern Bulgaria, was a tomb pit with a small human skeleton of a 7-year-old child (living with health problems). in a strange position: on their belly, with their legs bent and there was ceramics found as well that helped in dating. There are organic traces of tape on his skull – a possible dressing or decoration. The place was chosen not by accident – there is a long-standing study (still by an international team) Roman castle Jatrus at the mouth of Yantra river. The main purpose of the expedition is now to trace what has happened to these lands since the 1st millennium BCE. The period covers the life of the Thracian tribes and the establishment of the Roman power, as well as the transition to the early Middle Ages and the creation of the Bulgarian state.” ref
While hallucinogens are associated with shamanism, it is alcohol that is associated with paganism.
The Atheist-Humanist-Leftist Revolutionaries Shows in the prehistory series:
Show two: Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show tree: Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show four: Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show five: Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”
Show six: Emergence of hierarchy, sexism, slavery, and the new male god dominance: Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves!
Prehistory: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” the division of labor, power, rights, and recourses: VIDEO
Pre-animism 300,000 years old and animism 100,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Totemism 50,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Shamanism 30,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism”: VIDEO
Paganism 12,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Pre-Capitalism): VIDEO
Paganism 7,000-5,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Capitalism) (World War 0) Elite and their slaves: VIEDO
Paganism 5,000 years old: progressed organized religion and the state: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (Kings and the Rise of the State): VIEDO
Paganism 4,000 years old: related to “Anarchism and Socialism” (First Moralistic gods, then the Origin time of Monotheism): VIEDO
I do not hate simply because I challenge and expose myths or lies any more than others being thought of as loving simply because of the protection and hiding from challenge their favored myths or lies.
The truth is best championed in the sunlight of challenge.
An archaeologist once said to me “Damien religion and culture are very different”
My response, So are you saying that was always that way, such as would you say Native Americans’ cultures are separate from their religions? And do you think it always was the way you believe?
I had said that religion was a cultural product. That is still how I see it and there are other archaeologists that think close to me as well. Gods too are the myths of cultures that did not understand science or the world around them, seeing magic/supernatural everywhere.
I personally think there is a goddess and not enough evidence to support a male god at Çatalhöyük but if there was both a male and female god and goddess then I know the kind of gods they were like Proto-Indo-European mythology.
This series idea was addressed in, Anarchist Teaching as Free Public Education or Free Education in the Public: VIDEO
Our 12 video series: Organized Oppression: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of power (9,000-4,000 years ago), is adapted from: The Complete and Concise History of the Sumerians and Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia (7000-2000 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFjxmY7jQA by “History with Cy“
Show #1: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Samarra, Halaf, Ubaid)
Show #2: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Eridu “Tell Abu Shahrain”)
Show #3: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Uruk and the First Cities)
Show #4: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (First Kings)
Show #5: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Early Dynastic Period)
Show #6: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (King/Ruler Lugalzagesi)
Show #7: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Sargon and Akkadian Rule)
Show #9: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Gudea of Lagash and Utu-hegal)
Show #12: Mesopotamian State Force and the Politics of Power (Aftermath and Legacy of Sumer)
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Why Does Power Bring Responsibility?
Think, how often is it the powerless that start wars, oppress others, or commit genocide? So, I guess the question is to us all, to ask, how can power not carry responsibility in a humanity concept? I know I see the deep ethical responsibility that if there is power their must be a humanistic responsibility of ethical and empathic stewardship of that power. Will I be brave enough to be kind? Will I possess enough courage to be compassionate? Will my valor reach its height of empathy? I as everyone, earns our justified respect by our actions, that are good, ethical, just, protecting, and kind. Do I have enough self-respect to put my love for humanity’s flushing, over being brought down by some of its bad actors? May we all be the ones doing good actions in the world, to help human flourishing.
I create the world I want to live in, striving for flourishing. Which is not a place but a positive potential involvement and promotion; a life of humanist goal precision. To master oneself, also means mastering positive prosocial behaviors needed for human flourishing. I may have lost a god myth as an atheist, but I am happy to tell you, my friend, it is exactly because of that, leaving the mental terrorizer, god belief, that I truly regained my connected ethical as well as kind humanity.
Cory and I will talk about prehistory and theism, addressing the relevance to atheism, anarchism, and socialism.
At the same time as the rise of the male god, 7,000 years ago, there was also the very time there was the rise of violence, war, and clans to kingdoms, then empires, then states. It is all connected back to 7,000 years ago, and it moved across the world.
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My Thought on the Evolution of Gods?
Animal protector deities from old totems/spirit animal beliefs come first to me, 13,000/12,000 years ago, then women as deities 11,000/10,000 years ago, then male gods around 7,000/8,000 years ago. Moralistic gods around 5,000/4,000 years ago, and monotheistic gods around 4,000/3,000 years ago.
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