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This poignant and optimistic gesture -- history's first known glimmering of metaphysical hope -- tells us two important things about our Neanderthal ancestors: first, that they possessed sufficient brain power to comprehend the inescapable finality of physical death; and second, that they had already found a way to defeat or cope with it, at least conceptually.
Evidence of Neanderthal mortuary rituals has been discovered at Paleolithic gravesites scattered across Europe and Asia, and while anthropologists know very little about the specifics of Neanderthal myth, these early humans had clearly devised a systemm of belief that assured them that in some sense, death could be survived.
The graves and shrines of Neanderthals are the earliest known evidence of protoreligious behavior. The fact that thy occur coincidentally with earliest evidences of human culture -- pottery, complex tools, rudimentary housewares -- suggests something important. As soon as hominids began to behave like human beings, they began to wonder and worry about the deepest mysteries of existence -- and found resolution to those mysteries in the stories we call myths.
"Mythology is apparently coeval with mankind," says renowned scholar of myth Joseph Campbell," "As far back, that is to say, as we have been able to follow the broken, scattered, earliest evidence of the emergence of our species, signs hae been found which indicate that mythological aim and concerns were already shaping the arts and world of Homo sapiens.
Myths are apparently as old as human culture, but it would be a mistake to write off mythical think as a vestige of the archaic past. Myths are alive today in the foundational stories that empower all modern religions ..... Pages 54 / 55
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