The Embracing Skeletons of Alepotrypa are a pair of human skeletons dated as approximately 5,800 years old. They were discovered by archaeologists in the Alepotrypa cave in Laconia, Greece, home to a human settlement in the Neolithic age between 6,000 B.C. and 3,200 B.C.^[1] DNA analysis confirmed that the remains belong to a man and woman who died when they were 20 to 25 years of age.^[2][3][4]

The prehistoric skeletons died in a lover’s embrace with the man lying behind the woman, draping his arms over her, and with their legs intertwined.^[5][6][7]

They're totally spooning, The boy is the big spoon, and the girl is the little spoon: Their arms are draped over each other, their legs are intertwined. It's unmistakable.

—Bill Parkinson, associate curator of Eurasian anthropology at Chicago's Field Museum^[2]

Greek archaeologist Anastasia Papathanasiou said about the couple's pose, "It's a very natural hug; it doesn't look like they were arranged in this posture at a much later date."^[2] The cause of death of the two individuals is currently unknown.