Story highlights The researchers from the University of Basque in Spain, French National Centre for Scientific Research and Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle have identified 47 bones belonging to a child's skeleton that were not identified before Neanderthal's 41,000-year-old skeleton all set to resolve the long-standing mystery why the Stone Age hominins intentionally buried their dead. The origin of funerary practices has important implications for the emergence of so-called modern cognitive capacities and behaviour. The researchers from the University of Basque in Spain, French National Centre for Scientific Research and Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle have identified 47 bones belonging to a child's skeleton that were not identified before.