Comment on Oldest Cremation Pyre Ever Found Reveals Sophisticated Rituals | Ancient Origins

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

No wonder it was found where it was, I have to imagine this screams ‘point of interest’ if you’re in a hunter gatherer society living off the land:

a distant view of a single rocky mountain that juts out abruptly from a plain of grassland and spotted patches of trees. Other than a large nearby hill, most everything else is flat

These hunter-gatherers did not engage in megalithic or other architectural behavior, yet sites were positioned at notable landscape features and used repeatedly in diverse mortuary rituals that spanned multiple generations for at least ~16,000 years

Using unaltered features in the landscape wasn’t something I had ever considered as akin to megalithic monument use, but in that light it makes perfect sense.

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