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Abstract

At this book’s outset, we briefly met the Lovers of Valdaro , two Neolithic skeletons that Italian archaeologists had unearthed on 5 February 2007. The discovery swiftly became international news on account of the decedents’ body position—a loving embrace in excavators’ estimation.

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  1. 1.

    As reported on BBC News online: “It’s an extraordinary case,” said Ms. Menotti. “There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging—and they really are hugging” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6338751.stm, accessed online 23 May 2013).

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    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grave-news-romance-is-dead-451694, accessed 15 November 2009.

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    http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/foto-e-video/2007/02/28/fotogalleria/gli-amanti-di-valdaro-2-1.253701?p=0, accessed 15 November 2009.

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    http://thule-italia.com/wordpress/archives/6206, accessed 4 May 2013.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxNzrbVMZA, accessed 9 January 2015.

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    http://www.artnet.com/galleries/galleria-lia-rumma/marzia-migliora-bianca-e-il-suo/, accessed on 29 January 2015.

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    http://chickchat.ivillage.com/love/2007/02/sweet_romance.html, accessed on 20 November 2009.

  8. 8.

    http://www.topix.com/forum/it/mantua/TCJR26842HR0H9KUB, accessed on 18 November 2009.

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    http://ricerca.gelocal.it/gazzettadimantova/archivio/gazzettadimantova/2007/03/14/NT2PO_NT208.html, accessed 21 January 2015.

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    As detailed in a press release on Mantua’s tourism website, http://www.turismo.mantova.it/uploads/file/531e6b9fa67e90eb0e7266a47dfe4198.pdf, accessed on 7 May 2013.

  11. 11.

    Information about the festival “Mantova per Amore” appeared without a by-line in the Gazzetta di Mantova on 14 February 2011; the headline read “A Mantova le feste dell’Amore e gli Amanti di Valdaro hanno anche un canzone” (http://gazzettadimantova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2012/02/13/news/san-valentino-a-mantova-feste-dell-amore-al-ducale-meta-prezzo-anche-nbsp-per-le-coppie-gay-1.3177077, accessed on 8 May 2013. See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWFjYL6DVGM, accessed on 8 May 2013.

  12. 12.

    Valentine’s Day is only exceeded in spending by winter holidays (i.e., Christmas) and Mother’s Day (https://nrf.com/media/press-releases/cupid-shower-americans-jewelry-candy-this-valentines-day, accessed 11 February 2015).

  13. 13.

    His interview with Citta di Mantova News can be viewed online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7vakAUvbC8, accessed on 16 December 2015.

  14. 14.

    According to UNESCO, Mantua and the neighboring town of Sabbioneta were added to the list because they “are important for the value of their architecture and for their prominent role in the dissemination of Renaissance culture” (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1287, accessed 25 March 2015).

  15. 15.

    See CittaMantova TV’s report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htNW3--qnyQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWFjYL6DVGM, accessed on 6 May 2013.

  16. 16.

    The comic book is designed by the Italian cartoonist Giancarlo Malagutti; for excerpts, see http://www.afnews.info/wordpress/2014/04/08/gli-amanti-di-mantova-in-fumetto/, accessed on 26 February 2016.

  17. 17.

    Led by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, the Baader-Meinhof gang was an urban guerilla group (or left-wing terrorist group depending on where your sympathies lay), which was operative in West Germany started in the late-1960s. The group was later known as the Red Army Faction. According to internet lore, a weblog commentator named the phenomenon in the mid-1990s after hearing about the Baader-Meinhof group twice within less than 24 hours.

  18. 18.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071017-turkey-lovers.html, accessed 12 January 2015.

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    Today’s Zaman on-line 8 October 2007 (http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action;jsessionid=B96C97478262B7595A4C09FDB7730C90?pageNo=2827&category=100&dt=0&newsId=124094&columnistId=0, accessed 4 May 2013). In its own words, this online news website is “the most-circulating English-language newspaper in Turkey.” See also The Times of India online 10 October 2007. (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-10-10/europe/27983494_1_tomb-archaeologists-excavation-work, accessed 4 May 2013).

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/romania-skeletons-holding-hands-cluj-napoca_n_3133860.html, accessed 19 January 2015.

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    http://adevarul.ro/locale/cluj-napoca/romeo-julieta-cluj-arheologii-gasit-acelasi-sicriu-doua-schelete-intr-o-pozitie-ciudata-1_516fce0c053c7dd83f1f4a13/index.html and http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-archeologists-uncover-romeo-juliet-medieval-couple-buried-together-with-hands-clasped/96379/, accessed 19 January 2015.

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    http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6455/20130425/romeo-juliet-skeletons-hands-clasped-discovered-romanian-archaeologists.htm, accessed 19 January 2015.

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    http://www.counselheal.com/articles/5110/20130425/archaeologists-discover-remains-romanian-romeo-juliet-buried -together-holding-hands.htm, accessed 19 January 2015..

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    The publications cited here are English-language ones. Molodin, the principal excavator, has also published extensively in Russian, scholarly venues that appear to be peer-reviewed.

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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/11412836/Valentines-Day-Greek-discovery-of-couple-locked-in-six-millennia-old-hug.html, accessed 24 March 2015.

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    http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/skeletons-locked-in-6000-year-old-embrace-found-in-cave-150213.htm, accessed 24 March 2015.

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    http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1863947_1863934,00.html, accessed 3 February 2015.

  28. 28.

    http://blogs.discovery.com/news_animal/2008/11/the-worlds-firs.html, accessed 6 May 2013.

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    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081117-stone-age-family.html, accessed 4 February 2015.

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    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117192915.htm, accessed 6 May 2013.

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1086703/Buried-arms-Scientists-discover-remains-worlds-ancient-nuclear-family.html, accessed 6 May 2013.

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    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/discovered-in-a-tender-embrace-the-first-known-nuclear-family-1023106.html, accessed 1 February 2015.

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    http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/2008/11/20/earliest-nuclear-family-found%E2%80%94embracing/, accessed 4 February 2015.

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    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1118/breaking29.htm, accessed 6 May 2013.

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    http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2008/11/prehistoric-family-values/, accessed 4 February 2015.

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    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/18/tech/main4614701.shtml?source=RSSattr=SciTech_4614701, accessed 6 May 2013.

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    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27770938/?gt1=43001, accessed 6 May 2013.

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    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16054-ancient-grave-reveals-flintstone-nuclear-family.html#.VNJ8Mi7EiSo, accessed 4 February 2015.

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    http://www.newsweek.com/all-family-first-nuclear-family-grave-221416, accessed 4 February 2015.

  40. 40.

    From the news website Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: “Das ist ein sehr anrührender Fund, wir wollen diesen den Menschen heute nahe bringen. Wir haben viele Forschungsergebnisse, die es nun gilt, in einer Story aufzuarbeiten” (http://www.mz-web.de/kultur/fernsehen--tatort-eulau-,20642198,17973918.html, accessed 3 February 2015).

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1086703/Buried-arms-Scientists-discover-remains-worlds-ancient-nuclear-family.html?ITO=1490, accessed on 4 December 2009.

  42. 42.

    For a widely circulated photograph of the diorama, centrally located in the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, see http://archive.archaeology.org/image.php?page=0705/trenches/jpegs/amnh.jpg, accessed on 18 March 2016.

  43. 43.

    Scholars of human evolution are a cantankerous bunch when it comes to matters of taxonomy, and the controversy over proper terms may be lost on the general public. For good reason, of course; it gets a bit tedious. But, to clarify, Wood and Richmond (2000) have distinguished between hominid and hominin. Hominid, they explain, is shorthand for the family Hominidae; it includes the common ancestor of the living African apes (i.e., genus Homo, Pan, and Gorilla) and all of its descendants. Hominin refers to humans’ distinct evolutionary path and members of the tribe Hominini, which is inclusive of the subtribes Australopithecina and Hominina.

  44. 44.

    http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=34832, accessed 28 January 2015.

  45. 45.

    http://www.queerty.com/undying-love-proven-by-dead-lovers-20070207/, accessed 28 January 2015.

  46. 46.

    More recently, researchers have used accelerated mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating to determine that the individuals died between 115 B.C. and A.D. 50 (Van der Plicht et al. 2004).

  47. 47.

    Once Joan was sexed as a male the name was switched to John. The irony of this name switch should not be lost on those who are familiar with John Money’s famous John/Joan case. Born a male, “John” (i.e., Bruce Reimer) was the victim of a botched circumcision, and Money, a prominent sexologist and psychologist, advised that his parents permit complete sex reassignment and raise the child as a girl, or Joan (i.e., Brenda Reimer). What was initially thought to be successful socialization process was used to justify Money’s treatment of children with intersex conditions. Soon after puberty, however, Joan chose to live as a man. He later changed his name to David Reimer, but committed suicide at the age of 39 (Colapinto 2000).

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