Ingrid Bergman is said to have uttered one of the most notable definitions of the act of touching lips: “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
A kiss can leave behind more than just the magic of the moment. Memories may be supplemented by oral herpes or the Epstein-Barr virus. It is surmised that Neanderthals and modern humans could have touched lips more than 100,000 years ago because of the presence of the microbe Methanobrevibacter oralis in both species, says Troels Pank Arbøll, an Assyriologist at the University of Copenhagen who studies the history of medicine in ancient Mesopotamia and co-wrote the article in Science.
In anthropology, studies have shown that the sexual-romantic kiss is not universal in all human cultures, while the parental kiss seems to be relatively ubiquitous. Researchers have found a tendency in modern societies for the sexual-romantic kiss to be practiced where there is a high degree of social stratigraphy, lots of [social] classes, where people will come into contact with others that they don’t know.
In previous studies it was suggested that the earliest documentation was from India, and the idea was that kissing was brought out of India to other areas in a diffusion process. But now that we have this evidence from Mesopotamia and Egypt, you can’t really talk about a single point of origin in historic times. When we look in prehistory, we can see a few figurines that seem to indicate that kissing was practiced back then. It’s been suggested that Neandertals and humans kissed.
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