The Eternal Hug to be preserved, not destroyed
You’ve probably seen this image. A Neolithic couple locked in an embrace for centuries. According to Reuters and C|Net, instead of dissembling the skeletons for analysis they will be removed as a block, preserving the embrace:
Archaeologists said Monday that they won’t split up the remains of a couple found with their arms wrapped around each other for as long as 6,000 years since their burial in Italy.
Source: Scientists keep Stone Age skeletons in lovers’ embrace | News.blog | CNET News.com
I think this exemplifies the point I was trying to make in my Theme Day post last week. Sometimes there are things greater than “just knowing” at stake. The power of a couple dying together locked in each others’ arms is tremendous. You wonder what was happening. Volcano? Flood? Attack by rival band? Or maybe she caught him being a little too friendly with the chick in the next hut over and she’s throttling the life out of him. Eh, let’s forget that last one. It’s nicer to think of them the other way.
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