Wed, 07 Feb 2007

Prehistoric lovers found locked in embrace

The more things change, the more they stay the same. These kinds of finds from the Neolithic hold a lot more significance than most folks realize:

"The Neolithic is a very formative period for our society," said Luca Bondioli, an anthropologist at Rome's National Prehistoric and Ethnographic Museum. "It was when the roots of our religious sentiment were formed."

If you want to understand the tree, be it an oak or a family, take a good long look at the roots.

Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua. The site is just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of "Romeo and Juliet."

(link) [CNN]

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