Between 2004 and 2007, a group of archaeologists excavated a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France where more than 100 bodies of all ages were found. The graves were individual and had been carefully excavated so that no one was on top of another. There were hardly any valuable objects next to the dead, something strange, since at that time the Neolithic was triumphing, the revolution that brought sedentary lifestyle, agriculture and inequality to Europe. For the first time in history it was possible to accumulate large quantities of food, and the first riches. For unknown reasons, larger and larger groups began to gather to raise spectacular monuments megaliths and tombs where elites were buried along with valuable or sacred objects, such as weapons and animals. On the other hand, the French cemetery seemed like that of ordinary people of the time.
