The Earliest Infant Burial in Europe

The grave of Neve, a baby infant girl, who died 10,000 years ago reflects how beloved she was to her community

Some cultures bury their dead much differently than others, such as the differences seen between Tibetan sky burials and what we may traditionally observe in western, Judeo-Christian burial rites. One of my first anthropology courses facilitated studying these differences.

In that class, we surveyed the different headstones of local cemeteries. We compa…