When we first started remembering the dead with flowers: Scientists discover 造幣局 and 下落する laid by 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 14,000 YEARS AGO
- The first 証拠 of floral 尊敬の印s on 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs has been 設立する in 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs almost 14,000 years old at a scenic 先史の burial 場所／位置 in イスラエル
- 専門家s say the flowers could have been used to disguise the stench of rotting 死体s - or 妨げる ネズミs from digging up 団体／死体s
- The 発見 示唆するs that the use of of flowers to decorate 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs goes 支援する much earlier than 以前 thought
Humans have been decorating 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs with flowers for almost 14,000 years, say archeologists.
The first 証拠 the tradition of floral 尊敬の印s has been dug up in イスラエル where 下落する, 造幣局 and other 工場／植物s were used in 儀式の burials.
In modern times the tradition is used as a 調印する of 尊敬（する）・点 or remembrance, but it is believed to have started thousands of years ago to disguise the stench of the rotting 死体.
It was also hoped the scent of the 工場／植物s would stop animals 存在 attracted to the 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な to dig up the 団体／死体.
The earliest 証拠 of humans burying their dead with flowers, 13,700 years ago, was discovered in the same 場所 at 開始する Carmel last summer. 研究員s 設立する 下落する, 造幣局 (pictured) and other 工場／植物s buried with the 骸骨／概要s. The 最新の findings 示唆する this ritual may have been more コンビナート／複合体 than first thought
The 古代の Romans often laid out the ground of the tomb as a garden so the spirit could enjoy itself as it wandered.
The 最新の 発見 was 明らかにするd at the 底（に届く） of 13,700 to 11,700 year-old 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs at a scenic 先史の burial 位置／汚点／見つけ出す known as Raqefet 洞穴 overlooking the Mediterranean coast.
Professor Dani Nadel and his team used radiocarbon dating on the lining of tombs 含む／封じ込めるing 29 骸骨／概要s, of children and adults, with four 含む／封じ込めるing large 工場／植物 impressions identified as the 茎・取り除くs of 下落する, 造幣局 and figwort.
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Professor Nadel, an archaelogist at Haifa University in イスラエル, said: 'Flowering 工場／植物s 所有する 機械装置s that 刺激する 肯定的な emotional and social 返答s in humans.
'It's difficult to 設立する when people started to use flowers in public and 儀式の events because of the scarcity of 関連した 証拠 in the archaeological 記録，記録的な／記録する.
'We 報告（する）／憶測 on uniquely 保存するd 13,700-11,700-year-old 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な linings made of flowers 示唆するing such use began much earlier than 以前 thought.'
Part of 工場／植物s 独房s called phytoliths from grasses, leaves, reeds and sedges were identified all over the 洞穴 and on its terrace.
The 発見 was 明らかにするd at the 底（に届く） of 13,700 to 11,700 year-old 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs (pictured) at a scenic 先史の burial 位置／汚点／見つけ出す known as Raqefet 洞穴 overlooking the Mediterranean coast. Prof Nadel believes that 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 準備 was a sophisticated planned 過程, embedded with social and spiritual meanings 反映するing a コンビナート／複合体 pre-農業の society
The burial 炭坑，オーケストラ席s also had （手先の）技術d and natural 石／投石する 反対するs - perhaps as markers or symbols - 同様に as a prevalence of flints and butchered animal bones 示唆するing celebratory feasts.?
Prof Nadel said: 'Some of the 工場／植物 種類 attest to spring burials with a strong 強調 on colourful and aromatic flowers.
'洞穴 床に打ち倒す chiseling to 融通する the 願望（する）d 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 場所 and depth is also evident at the 場所／位置.
'Thus, 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な 準備 was a sophisticated planned 過程, embedded with social and spiritual meanings 反映するing a コンビナート／複合体 pre-農業の society を受けるing 深遠な changes at the end of
the Pleistocene.'
The only earlier 証拠 of flower burials comes from pollen 穀物s in a neanderthal's 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な in Iraq but these could have been left by a rodent with a habit of 蓄える／店ing seeds and flower 長，率いるs.
The largest number of 保存するd 工場／植物 impressions was in the 二塁打 burial of a 12 to 15 year-old adolescent and an individual over 30.
The two were lying on their 支援するs 平行の to each other with their 肘s juxtaposed, によれば the 研究 published in 訴訟／進行s of the 国家の 学院 of Sciences.
The 古代の burial 炭坑，オーケストラ席 dating to nearly 14,000 years ago 含む／封じ込めるd imp
ressions from 茎・取り除くs and flowers of aromatic 工場／植物s such as 下落する (left) and 造幣局 (権利)
Prof Nadel said: 'The finds from Raqefet 洞穴 示す 13,700 to 11,700 years ago the Natufians lined 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大なs with a soft mud veneer and then placed a 厚い cover of fresh flowering 工場／植物s -その為に 供給するing colour and aromatic fragrance.
'実験の 熟考する／考慮するs have 論証するd flowers' 重要な 役割 as 外部の sources of emotional stimuli with measurable 肯定的な 衝撃s on human social 機能（する）／行事.
'Flowers can be used to 表明する sympathy, pride and joy. They also are used to 表明する 宗教的な feelings; in some 宗教s flowers are considered the direct 大勝する for spiritual communication.?
'These 関係s may 利益 fitness in both humans and flowers and have been linked to the domestication of 確かな 種類 of flowering 工場／植物s more than 5,000 years ago.'
The use of flowers much earlier in social events such as funerals could have served to 高める group 身元 and 団結.
Prof Nadel said: 'The 開発 of group-明確な／細部 burials and 関係のある practices likely 減ずるd social 緊張s and 改善するd group cohesion in a period of fluctuating 環境の 条件s, 増加するing 全住民 濃度／密度 and growing social 衝突s.
'The 出現 of 共同墓地s such as those at Raqefet 洞穴 and Hilazon Tachtit 洞穴 also may 代表する new and コンビナート／複合体 social organisations which could have 含むd the 設立 or 強化するing of special 利益／興味 groups, 相続物件 of 法人組織の／企業の 所有物／資産／財産, 領土の 所有権s and 面s of social organisation.'
