“…In some cases, corpses may have come to rest in natural (rather than deliberate) cuttings, such as the Neanderthal child from Roc de Marsal, France [40] or adult from Regourdou, France [41], although one cannot rule out that these questionable cases were deliberate burials. In several sites, however, the picture is clear, particularly where multiple burials (e.g.in the La Ferrassie rockshelter, Dordogne, France and Shanidar cave, Iraq) [42] indicate the repeated use of these occupation sites for the burial of both young and old, and the occasional association of the dead with stone tools, and in one case, the use of a rock engraved with cupules to mark an infant's grave pit [43,44]. Neanderthal mortuary practices were varied, not least of which rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org Phil.…”