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Old 04-07-11, 03:55 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Platapus View Post
I suppose these "scientists" did not both to consider lazyness on the part of the burial party in their hypothesis?

I doubt the cave dudes did anything consistently and with unvarying precision.
Or maybe the archeologists know the culture they're studying?
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Archaeologists do not think it was a mistake or coincidence given the importance attached to funerals during the period....

From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake,’ said lead researcher Kamila Remisova Vesinova.
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