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By 100,000 years ago, early modern humans buried the dead together with beads and other symbolic objects. Burial rituals heightened the group’s memory of the deceased person. These rituals may imply that such groups shared the belief that a person’s identity extends beyond death. By 24,000 years ago, there is evidence of child burials, with children being buried covered in ochre markings and with mammoth tusks.