Humans
70,000-year-old remains suggest Neanderthals buried their dead
This Neanderthal was deliberately buried between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago Neanderthals really did bury their dead. Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered a new Neanderthal skeleton that appears to have been deliberately buried around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. “We are quite confident,” says Emma Pomeroy at the University of Cambridge. The first evidence that …