I understand exactly what you mean. While I do find it fascinating, it also makes me cringe, especially when I see mummies or grave stuff in museums. I say study it only if we must, with as little disruption as possible, and put the photos and reports on display.

This is an interesting possibility, especially from the photo. It's possible they were choking each other - look at the hand on the right person's neck. Intestesting theory, really.

I hope they are preserved in some way. Or kept somewhere where they can't be damaged.

I find it romantic. Kind of like how they would find the main characters in Aida... centuries later...

There's a story behind this somewhere.
:)

You're cool with it but betcha the neolithic peoples wouldn't have been. We do not need to disrupt their graves.

This reminds me of a picture I once saw of a cast of two victims of Mt. Vesuvius, locked in an eternal embrace.

I remember that picture! It made me sad. :(

Very sad, but I suppose if I were going to die in that way I'd want to be with the one I love (assuming they were also going to die).

But how do we know that? Aren't we really just projecting our own feelings onto what we think the neolithic people though?

We'd have to see the grave itself - it's location and setup to know. My guess is that since we're just finding it now, it was pretty well hidden away.

Let's talk about the imposition of one culture on another. In this thread, we have references to Romeo and Juliet, Aida, the Simpsons' bones of an angel, Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, and Pompei. We all see others through our own optic.

I see love.
:)

And I see archaeologists who mess around in graves, often misappropriating artifacts and make field-work on Indian reservations super ultra IM-freaking-possible for cultural anthropologists.