RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Babylon, Zagros Mountains, Pyramid Texts
16 Apr 2017
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Religion - week 2: death in the ancient world. Most striking representative of the earliest forms of the religion is the shaman. What is found in the graves can tell us what they believe regarding death. Cro-magnon: 30/40,000 - 7000 bce begins ca 10,000 bce. Excavations tell us that ancient people buried their dead. First to be discovered in 1908 by la chapelle aux saints, france. People had put food and tools like hand axes in the grave with the dead. Things people would have used in their daily lives, idea that they would need these for where they were going. Signs of less practical offerings: neanderthal burial site - zagros mountains, iraq pollen samples from several species of owers found arranged around the dead. Cro-magnon burial site under protective stone slab: find the dead surrounded with ornaments (shell bracelets) and weapons, tools, and food, attempt to satisfy needs of the dead to make them happy or comfortable.
