asdjkl: Burying the best grains (along with other grave goods) with the corpses was the first planting of seeds; the decaying flesh may incidentally have provided fertilizing nutrients for the seeds. When new plants grew on the grave site the next year, people likely attributed their good fortune to the goodwill of their ancestors or the gods with whom they were believed to be dwelling. Eventually they would have figured out that seeds, sans corpse, would suffice to grow food. The existing evidence strongly suggests that rituals surrounding death and the afterlife led to large gatherings of people and impressive technological developments that contributed both to farming and to other cultural advances that follow from the development of larger settlements and a less nomadic lifestyle.

Burying the best grains (along with other grave goods) with the corpses was the first planting of seeds; the decaying flesh may incidentally have provided fertilizing nutrients for the seeds. When new plants grew on the grave site the next year, people likely attributed their good fortune to the goodwill of their ancestors or the gods with whom they were believed to be dwelling. Eventually they would have figured out that seeds, sans corpse, would suffice to grow food. The existing evidence strongly suggests that rituals surrounding death and the afterlife led to large gatherings of people and impressive technological developments that contributed both to farming and to other cultural advances that follow from the development of larger settlements and a less nomadic lifestyle.

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The Worm at the Core Tom Pyszczynski

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