“The Dead Don’t Bury Themselves”
The discoveries made by the team thus far have offered serious insight into how people of the time reacted to anything unfamiliar to them, such as disease. The team plans to return to the site in the future to continue excavations. “Anytime you can look at burials, they’re significant because they provide a window into ancient minds. We have a saying in bioarchaeology: ‘The dead don’t bury themselves,'” Wilson said. He added that complicated feelings surrounding death are fundamentally human, which explains why they reacted so violently to the death of a seemingly harmless child…