Reconstruction of the burial of an eight-year child, found at Teshik-Tash in Uzbekistan. The body is completely surrounded and covered by ibex horns, whereas the animal skin envelope is conjectural. It is another attestation of the way in which Neanderthals took care of their dead and conceived a link between the animal world and the world of the dead. Mousterian period (about 50/40,000 years B.P.). American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.

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