Cave burials 90,000 BCE
When the skeletons of ten adults and children were discovered from the Skhūl Cave near Mount Carmel, Israel, in 1932, archeologists became very excited. Not only were they later found to be about 90,000 years old, but the fact that they were in the cave was evidence that humans were burying their dead at that early stage. Alongside the humans were ritual goods and the lower jaw of a wild boar in the hands of one of the skeletons. This could have been buried with him as a reminder of his fighting skill.