Spirituality

Neanderthals and Their Brains: Spiritual beliefs aren’t new, and honestly they aren’t even close to being new. To really help us think about this, Jesus lived about 2,000 years ago but the earliest evidence we have of spiritual activity was found within Neanderthal burials dated to about 70,000-100,000 years ago. The fact that burials were taking place was significant enough, but to add to that, the dead were often buried with tools, flowers, and were even sometimes found with painted bodies. All of this possibly suggests that the people performing these burials thought that their loved ones were going somewhere after death where they might need these things, which points to signs of a belief in the afterlife. What makes this even more interesting is the fact that compared to the human ancestors who were around prior to Neanderthals, the Neanderthals had larger brains, specifically the cortex, which is responsible for higher thought processes. The evolutionary jump may have had a … [Read more...] about Neanderthals, Spirituality, Fertility Gods, and Quantum Physics