Lapedo child is a 24,500-year-old prehistorical skeleton found in Portugal, believed to be a hybrid that had a Neanderthal parent and an anatomically modern human parent. The 4-year-old child was buried with pierced shell, a young dead rabbit, the pelvises of 2 red deer and red ochre [1600×3050]
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[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagar_Velho_1#:~:text=Lagar%20Velho%201%2C%20also%20known,an%20anatomically%20modern%20human%20parent.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagar_Velho_1#:~:text=Lagar%20Velho%201%2C%20also%20known,an%20anatomically%20modern%20human%20parent.)
[https://www.nature.com/articles/424490a](https://www.nature.com/articles/424490a)
I think about this kind of thing often—the interbreeding between neanderthal and homo sapiens, I mean.
Do you think these copulations were usually rape? Physically, or mentally. Like, could modern humans and neanderthals communicate? Would neanderthals have been effectively mentally disabled? Crazy to think about.
Wake up honey, the latest well researched post by u/Fuckoff555 just dropped.
People used to love them some red ochre in a grave. Gotta wonder why we ever stopped doing it.
They sent a rabbit with her. A pet maybe?
This is so sweet and sad. They placed their child in there, almost 25,000 years ago. Maybe with some provisions for the afterlife.
My son is 4 and asleep in his bed. I can’t imagine having to do this instead, and they probably laid down as many of their few possessions as they could. To make sure their baby was comfortable.
I wonder what they believed about death. Was death more common and not as heartbreaking? I doubt it.