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At Qafzeh Cave near Nazareth, about 92,000 years ago, people carried ochre-stained seashells inland from the coast and buried their dead, one child with a deer's antlers laid on the body.
The mechanism
A MARK FOR OTHER MINDS, AND A GRAVE
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- SourcesARCHAEOLOGY — Bar-Yosef Mayer, Vandermeersch & Bar-Yosef, Journal of Human Evolution 56:307–314 (2009)
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