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There are at least 100 complete Neanderthal skeletons, including the one buried in the cave at Shanidar with identifiable pollens from plants still used as medicines in the area. Yup, the Neanderthal were the first to bury their dead with flowers.
Because flowers have a way of coming back, despite harsh winters, droughts, floods, and appearing dead.
Because flowers have a way of coming back, despite harsh winters, droughts, floods, and appearing dead.
They hoped thus for their stopped friends.
Interesting perspective, Trout.
The character that Jean Auel made out of this burial in The Clan of the Cave Bear is the Clan's medicine woman, and the plants are her tools of the trade to take with her into the next world.
The character that Jean Auel made out of this burial in The Clan of the Cave Bear is the Clan's medicine woman, and the plants are her tools of the trade to take with her into the next world.
Yes, I very much enjoyed her first book in that series.
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Yes, I very much enjoyed her first book in that series.
Wish I could say likewise for the rest.
I actually liked all of them, other than the last one which was vapid I thought. The series was an interesting spin on civilization, population migrations, science, medicine and religions.
Just curious, I know nobody can know the mind of God, etc. But I was reading this article "http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/11/466224456/science-hunts-for-clues-to-human-health-in-neanderthal-dna" and thought to myself, were these Neanderthal people in every way the same children of God as Homo sapiens? Or were they soul-less in the same way as many people believe animals are? I suppose having 1-6% of Neanderthal DNA wouldn't make me any less human, but what about 50%, as, presumably, those first mixed children were. And if they were in every way like us, what of those other species like Homo erectus, etc? When did humans acquire souls?
Right, we can Not know the mind of God, but we can know the mind of Christ. - 1st Corinthians 2:16 B; 3:23
Science keeps advancing, but there is some ' junk ' DNA teachings out there.
As far as people go, according to Scripture, there are No soul-less people, nor soul-less animals
Please notice Numbers 31:28 because it mentions animals as being souls.
Adam only became a living soul, or person, ' after ' God breathed the breath of life into life-less Adam - Gen. 2:7
So, Adam did Not have a soul, Adam did Not possess a soul, rather Adam was a soul or was a person.
When Adam died ' all ' of Adam ' returned to the dust of the ground - Genesis 3:19
A person can Not ' return ' to a place he never was before.
Adam simply went from non-life, to life, and went back returning to non-life.
Adam sinned, and the soul that sins dies - Ezekiel 18:4,20. The mortal soul can be destroyed - Acts 3:23
All the wicked will be ' destroyed forever ' - Psalm 92:7
I actually liked all of them, other than the last one which was vapid I thought. The series was an interesting spin on civilization, population migrations, science, medicine and religions.
Those books sent me off to learning about herbal medicines and reading further about ice age archeology and the humans who lived then. I went to the Museum of Natural History in the city (NY) just to see the artifacts from what is now Ukraine.
Remember in The Mammoth Hunters they build a longhouse out of mammoth bones? Well, they had a model of that structure, which she incorporated into her story, plus bone tools and other items from the site. So cool.
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