Earliest example of twins and death in childbirth found in Russia

Posted On: May 8th, 2015 at 13:38

Russia
An astonishing and dreadfully sad discovery in Irkutsk, Siberia, is the first known account of twin babies, and one of the earliest known deaths during childbirth, in the world.
Dating to 5700 BC, the mother and her two babies were found buried in a large cemetery next to a modern housing development. But the fact that these people were “hunter-gatherers” as the model suggests, but buried all their dead in one place, kind of destroys that idea entirely. Hunter-gatherers were considered to be nomadic and yet all over the world we keep finding older and older dates for people settling in one place. To compensate, this article suggests they were “a hunter-gatherer community who roamed the area.” That’s comical.
Our models of human history need an immediate and radical overhaul.

http://news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-grave-may-earliest-example-death-during-childbirth-133134526.html