The beads were an important clue.

So it's appearing that man's inhumanity towards man has been universal and global. And it all seems to be designed with a similar purpose...to appease a god. Don't you just wonder where this concept originated?

interesting 2see that most fundamental human tendencies stayed quiet the same from time immemorial... )

if u like u can see my clip from 12/31/06 titled:
did homo erectus love... ?

Yes, but who are we to judge?

Which proves that under whatever colour skin we might have, we are very much the same underneath.

With the butchery going on in Iraq today, I'm not sure if we have progressed very much. Killing people with non-white skin seems to be pretty acceptable.

Yes, but who are we to judge?

We can judge our current behaviour in the light of this. We don't sacrifice the congenitally deformed anymore (although that was the basis of eugenics early last century), but we happily sacrifice our enemies in the name of religion.

Excavations in Dublin uncovered pits with the bones of young children, up to 6 years old. No attempt was made to bury them as in the case of often elaborate burials for older people.

The thinking was that up to a certain age that any hold on life was tenuous, so what was the point. Best guess, I think. A bit like limbo.