we can distil for the purposes of this enquiry three evolved strands of human belief. They are interwoven and interdependent to such an extent that one can hardly have prevailed without the others. All three are implied by burial with bits: 1. Something survives of a human being after death. 2. That something escapes the grasp of the corpse and goes somewhere. 3. That something, if it goes somewhere, can quite reasonably be expected to be capable of coming back.
