Zaver...(15/1)

The current exhibition at muzeum hlavniho mesta Prahy gathers the belief of the research findings of the ritual and burial system in ancient times in Czech. It is a small scale yet serious exhibition...though appropriately set its light at an exhibiting place focusing on anthological and historical ground of the 'Czech' people (or better say the tribes of ancient people dwelling in the area now defined as Czech), the finding of the presentation is not comprehensive enough. There lacks an authoritative commentary and it is not convincing for its presumption and 'generalisation' for a visitor like me. It is definitely difficult to draw any conclusion about how ancient people looked at death and handled death. The current evidence from excavation is not conclusive for us to understand the topic. As cited in the exhibition, Burial remaining of the different stages of the Stone Age were found in various regions of the country and based on the manner of the burial arrangement revealed, there is a similarity that researchers agree on such as the direction of placement of dead bodies as well as the gesture and position the bodies were aligned. The exhibition believes that people at old times were more open to death, or perhaps it was that death would be a more common thing happened within the tribes. From time to time, the dead bodies were either buried or incremented. Other means of disposal may be difficult to reveal at our times. The significance of corpse direction the researchers look at may be relevant in relation to the importance of nature in the past. People might believe in their gods and goddesses, and the direction could be an interpreted expectation of an unknown world that they symbolised in their knowledge world. People are always evolving in a wish about the unexplainable. The display was good and it ended with a query of the way we should look at this unknown world. Death is as unknown as life.
When looking at the description of the stone ages finding, my mind was like wandering at the primitive world of the 2001 space odyssey...