These questions define culture. Every culture has a religious point of view. 40,000 years ago there was a bear culture. The bear was buried with his bones in his mouth. This was the first idea of another life - the first cultural remains of modern Homo Sapiens.
Bodies now begin to be ritually buried - death means something.
Scientific evaluation began only 450 years ago as we tried to understand where we came from. Characteristics of Cosmology and Creation myth 1. Before, story and science were separate fields 2. There is a wider reality we belong to and we are conscious of it 3. The universe is a single meaningful whole 4.