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How did early humans believed life after death(short note)
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Some 34,000 years ago, two boys and a middle-aged man were buried in fantastic style. They were laid to rest wearing over 13,000 mammoth ivory beads, hundreds of perforated fox canine teeth and other adornments. Discovered in the 1960s, at the site of Sungir, Russia, the burials also contained spears, figurines and the hollowed out shaft of a woman’s femur, packed with red ochre. Archaeologists estimate the ivory beads alone would have taken 2500 hours of labor to produce.
We’ll never know what particular beliefs these ancient people held. But such elaborate, time-intensive burials strongly suggest they conceived of an afterlife and spiritual forces. It’s something that we see today in nearly every culture on Earth, and it’s usually tied to religious practices and beliefs. In fact, archaeologists often use graves like these as a rough marker for the emergence of religion in human societies.
The evolutionary origins of religion is a big topic, so let’s just focus on this one component: concern for the dead and the afterlife. When did human ancestors begin to invest in the dead?
Understanding Death
Evolutionary speaking, devoting energy or resources to dead members of your species doesn’t seem very worthwhile. But it’s done, to a limited extent by chimpanzees, our closest primate relatives. Chimp mothers have been observed carrying their dead infants for weeks. Some researchers contend this stems from the intensity of their mother-infant bond, while others propose it’s a “better to be safe than sorry” strategy, to avoid abandoning seemingly dead, but actually living offspring. However, overall, chimp treatment of dead conspecifics is highly variable, ranging from cannibalism to care.
To get from animal-like responses to death to the funerary behaviors of contemporary humans, in a Proceedings of the Royal Society B article, archaeologist Paul Pettitt proposed four evolutionary stages.
“The first of these is purely chemical,” he says. “A chemical stimulus tells a part of your brain that it’s not good to have that corpse rotting away, so you do something about it.” Many animals, including insects, detect necromones (like hormones, but emitted from decomposing organisms) and respond by avoiding, eating or even burying corpses. The second stage of emotion — being upset by a particular individual’s death — is exhibited by numerous social species like birds, elephants and primates.
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early humans believed that after death the person had to become something another.They were keeping things like tools And food with the death body .