@xris,
xris wrote:I find it only natural that the head is where i am so why should my ancestors think any differently
Most of our very distant ancestors will have believed in a spirit or soul, and believed that to be within the body, not think that their head(or brain) is 'where they are' though they may have attached great importance to it.
I personally don't think that our ancestors were 'savages', I simply object to you projecting your views onto them and calling those views advanced.
Also I think that archeaolgoy is (perhaps unavoidably) and overly materialist way of viewing our predecessors, as after all, so many human acheivments are invisible- art, music, government, language; these are the great acheviments of our ancestores, who we foolishly think of as unadvanced because they use tools of stone and wood- a sign of vast acheivment in itself.