The best evidence of the first deliberate human burial dates back almost 100,000 years, and the idea of ancestor veneration has persisted for millennia. The way that a living community responds to death reveals much about their sense of identity and particularly the group’s religious and spiritual traditions. Choose a culture/region from the list below and include in your paper responses to both of the following questions:
Mesopotamians keeping ancestral skulls on display in the home
Indians burning the funeral pyre on the River Ganges
Asians modifying the bones of the dead during “secondary burials”
Romans arranging the deceased in visible underground catacombs
Medieval Eastern Europeans preventing vampires or other revenants
How do burial rituals build identity and strengthen the sense of community for the living?
What factors have shaped these customs and values—religious, political, geographical, etc.?
Fully develop your findings in a 2-3 page paper, and be sure to format your paper and cite your research sources as per APA guidelines.
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1. The best evidence of the first deliberate human burial dates
back almost 100,000 years, and the idea of ancestor veneration
has persisted for millennia. The way that a living community
responds to death reveals much about their sense of identity and
particularly the group’s religious and spiritual traditions.
Choose a culture/region from the list below and include in your
paper responses to both of the following questions:
Mesopotamians keeping ancestral skulls on display in the home
Indians burning the funeral pyre on the River Ganges
Asians modifying the bones of the dead during “secondary
burials”
Romans arranging the deceased in visible underground
catacombs
Medieval Eastern Europeans preventing vampires or other
revenants
How do burial rituals build identity and strengthen the sense of
community for the living?
What factors have shaped these customs and values—religious,
political, geographical, etc.?
Fully develop your findings in a 2-3 page paper, and be sure to
format your paper and cite your research sources as per APA
guidelines.
