Question

Ceremonial burial of dead body was started by _________.

• (A) Neanderthal man
• (B) Modern man
• (C) Java man
• (D) Handy man

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Explanation:
Ceremonial burial of dead body was started by java man. The roots of burial as a practice can be traced back in Middle Palaeolithic and coincide with the appearance of Neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens. Since then mounts of earth, temples etc., have been used for storage of ancestor bodies.Java man, extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) known from fossil remains found on the island of Java, Indonesia. A skullcap and femur (thighbone) discovered by the Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugène Dubois in the early 1890s were the first known fossils of the species Homo erectus.Hence, the correct option is (C).