Love Neolithic Style or Eros Rigor Mortis

[Gemini Cricket]

It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love.Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of "Romeo and Juliet."

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Cheesy thread titles aside, I find this to be very romantic.


Ah, just in time for Valentine's Day. "Oh, l'amour, l'amour!"

[3894]

I really don't like archaeologists. Really don't.

Leave the grave the *bleep* alone.

[Snowflake]

I saw this article this morning, very cool find. I've always wanted to go on a working archaeological dig (of course, now at my advanced age, my knees would protest loudly). Maybe a working vacation in Italy, yeah, that would work.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by 3894

I really don't like archaeologists. Really don't.

Leave the grave the *bleep* alone.

You don't like any of them? Or would you prefer they just left human remains alone but continued to excavate the other areas of ancient sites?

I can understand the sensitivity, since, in our own time, defiling a grave is taboo. But, I also think it's extraordinarily important that we learn all we can about who we are and how we got here.

In my own view, the people themselves are long past caring about it, and if the society that buried them 6000 years ago has vanished, I don't see it as much of a violation. This is how ancient people go from complete obscurity to being newly talked about, understood and celebrated.

If thousands of years from now, someone unearths my bones and examines my belongings, and thereby gains new understanding, I am totally cool with that. I just hope they don't conclude from my own example that 21st century society was a shark-worshpping cult.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

If thousands of years from now, someone unearths my bones and examines my belongings, and thereby gains new understanding, I am totally cool with that. I just hope they don't conclude from my own example that 21st century society was a shark-worshpping cult.

Actually, I think that would be very cool! I'd like to be around to witness that, and be able to remember this current life so I can really have a good laugh about it all.

[3894]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

If thousands of years from now, someone unearths my bones and examines my belongings, and thereby gains new understanding, I am totally cool with that.

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

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by 3894

You're cool with it but betcha the neolithic peoples wouldn't have been.

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

[3894]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

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.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Gives all new meaning to the expression "boned."

[CoasterMatt]

I can't help but think of the Simpsons when they find the bones of an "angel"