What Did Ancient Humans Do With Their Dead?

For 300,000 years, your ancestors faced death without funeral homes, without coffins, without embalmers, and without a single word of eulogy they didn't write themselves. When someone died, the body was right there — in the same space where they had eaten, slept, and told stories just hours before. The smell came first. Then the bloating. Then the realization that this person was not coming back. So what did they actually do? The answer changes everything you think you know about grief, ritual, and what it means to be human. From the flower-covered Neanderthal graves of Shanidar Cave to the skull-cups of Gough's Cave, from communal mourning that lasted weeks to the professionalization of death that erased it all — this is the story of how we used to die, and what we lost along the way. 🎨 Crudely drawn in MS Paint because serious topics deserve serious art.