ABSTRACT
Unfortunately, for our understanding of our inheritance as a species, we have come to take practices associated with the mortuary culture of ancient times for granted. However, these activities reveal certain traits about our neurocultural past and help us to come to terms with worldwide patterns and our unquestioned assumptions. In this chapter, I investigate certain behaviors that can be broken down into features that characterize, as seen across remarkably diverse cultures, bicameral civilizations. 1
