[SunkenCiv]

This six-month-old baby is one of the oldest infant skeletons found in Europe. It was buried 8,400 years ago by hunter-gatherers near Berlin. [Photo by Remi Benali, National Geographic]

[buwaya]

Very interesting.
I hope they can obtain gene samples.
That may answer a few questions.

[BBell]

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[Vermont Lt]

8,400 years ago and they were doing weird things in the cemetery.

Could it be that these people were just learning how to bury people and no one wrote the book yet?

Nope? Ok, I will come up with another theory.

[Organic Panic]

Maybe they only had post hole diggers.

[disndat]

Bodies of children. One man buried standing up. In an unlikely and remote location. Hmmm...

Betcha this is the first record of a child molester/murderer executed by burying him with his head exposed. Next to an anthill.

[Alas Babylon!]

It almost makes sense in light of this sentence:

The hilltop's hard, rocky soil would have been a tough place to dig graves.

A lot easier to dig a 2 foot square hole 6 feet deep than a six by 3 foot hole 6 feet deep in that kind of ground.