burial

A renewed legal tussle over where to bury King Richard III’s remains

Saskatchewan has adopted a new, greener burial method. Will the ‘ick factor’ keep it from catching on?

The disposal of bin Laden’s body in the north Arabian Sea fuels the critics and the conspiracy theories

My anthropology class recently watched a documentary about Neanderthals. One of the discoveries that was highlighted in the documentary was a site called Shanidar, in Iraq, which showed evidence of a Neanderthal burial- complete with funeral flowers. This led anthropologists to conclude that Neanderthals, contrary to the ‘brute’ stereotype, were capable of showing compassion.