2.08.2007

Romance is Dead



One of my major goals as a Humanities teacher is to help my students to find the themes and ideas that help them relate to our common human experience. This article on the Neolithic skeletons found embracing as they died between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago near modern-day Mantua in Italy is a beautiful example of how comfort and affection and the need for human contact is timeless and universal.

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