根据考古学的相关研究,人类处理同伴尸体的历史发生可能很早。而文化人类学的相关研究则告诉我们,原始先民们在进入土葬文化前,都有过一个多种葬形式并存的漫长岁月。山顶洞人所实施的土葬,是中国现存最早的土葬葬例。对于处在历史过程中的原始社会成员来说,他们选择土葬形式肯定是有某种原因的。这种原因,需要我们到当时社会的原始农业生产方式中去寻找。 According to archaeological research, the history of the human handling of corpses may be very early. The cultural anthropology research tells us that before the primitive ancestors entered the burial culture, there have been a variety of forms of coexistence of a long time. The burial at the top of the cave was the earliest example of burial in China. For the primitive members of the society who are in history, there is a certain reason for their choice of burial forms. This reason, we need to go to the primitive society of agricultural production methods to find.