DNA extracted from bones and teeth in a 4600-year-old stone age burial has provided the earliest evidence for the nuclear family as a social structure. The grave which was found in Germany, consists of 2 parents and 2 sons who were buried together after being killed in a violent conflict [1080×1107]
by Fuckoff555
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[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/nov/18/archaeology-germany-dna-nuclear-family](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/nov/18/archaeology-germany-dna-nuclear-family)
Is it just me or is “These were parents/children who died together” to “Stone age people had monogamous relationships (with all the baggage attached to ‘nuclear family’)” a very far leap?
Nuclear family is a term I did not know. Weird.
“New evidence confirms our ancestors used to have sex and make children.”
I am ignorant so don’t be too harsh on me for these two questions.
How do they know the parents and their child weren’t part of a larger extended family and that they just happened to be the only ones killed? Wouldn’t it take finding more graves before anyone can determine if nuclear families were normal during that period?
OP please explain the weird bullshit jumps in your or the article conclusions. Also DNA research is not really an artifact ? Or is the tomb the artifact ? I’m reporting this this is bullshit.
Edit : also why bring up an old 17 years article ? What is going on ?
Nuclear family is such a biased term to categorise people who lived so far in time from any culture.