http://www.mythphile.com/2013/08/flower-crowns-ancient-modern/ all the myth that's fit to print Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://www.mythphile.com/2013/08/flower-crowns-ancient-modern/comment-page-1/#comment-6342 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:07:37 +0000 http://www.mythphile.com/?p=493#comment-6342 The impulse to use flowers may go back even further. A Neanderthal burial in Shanidar Cave in Iraq has a thick layer of pollen beneath at least one of the skeletons. Some researchers have suggested that the many flower heads could have been brought in by a small animal. If so, it was very choosy, as five of the six flower types are used medicinally. I personally think it is just as likely that the flowers are there to honor the dead, not exactly a flower crown but similar in meaning.

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