The Birth of Art & Death, Fourth Installment: The Burials of European Homo sapiens
by John David Ebert
Mortuary Transformations
After about 30,000 BC, the cultural lability of Homo sapiens begins to solidify and become more stable. Innovation still continues, but not at the same explosive pace. For it is at this time that art and the cult of the dead, hitherto entirely separate domains, begin to cross-fertilize each other, and mortuary customs once again …