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Letter: Neanderthal funerals indicate complex brain (2)

Published 13 August 2025

From Andrew Whiteley, Consett, County Durham, UK

This piece leaves me wondering what the motivations may be behind ancient funerary practices. They may well reflect belief in, and ritual worship of, some sort of god or gods, and a belief in, or at any rate a desire for, life beyond death.

Issue no. 3556 published 16 August 2025

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