What Did Ancient Humans Do With Their Dead?

For most of our history a body was left where it fell. Then, around a hundred thousand years ago, that changes, and somebody starts digging. This video covers the first prepared graves, red ochre appearing on continents that had no contact, two children buried with ten thousand ivory beads, skulls kept in houses with plaster faces rebuilt over them, and why a grave is the earliest hard evidence of what was happening inside a human mind. 00:00 Somebody takes the body away 00:30 The first graves 02:30 What they were willing to spend 05:00 Grief without a system 07:30 What we handed over 09:30 One decision