It’s set in an anonymous, upper-middle-class suburb, lensed in the generic gunmetal gray that will one day appear as dated as the fuzzy outlines of ’80s direct-to-video horror movies.

At the same time, it must be acknowledged that Mousterian burials are still a poorly studied source from the taphological point of view, i.e. as far as study of the actual burial rites is concerned.[…]The numbers of sites with burials, their dating, natural habitat, and the approximate number of simultaneous burials at each site all point to the existence of certain “centres of taphological activity” for the earliest man.

We went down a secret passage.

We partied until the early hours.