Prehistoric Cemetery Reveals Man and Fox Were Pals   Live Science - February 3, 2011
Before dog was man's best friend, we might have kept foxes as pets, even bringing them with us into our graves, scientists now say. This discovery, made in a prehistoric cemetery in the Middle East, could shed light on the nature and timing of newly developing relationships between people and beasts before animals were first domesticated. It also hints that key aspects of ancient practices surrounding death might have originated earlier than before thought.

Bronze Age People Left Flowers at Grave   PhysOrg - December 16, 2009

Evidence of earliest human burial BBC - March 23, 2003

Researchers claim to have found the earliest deliberate human burial and therefore the first evidence of symbolic thought at a 350,000-year-old site in northern Spain.