[Stones] Intramural burials

[Gerald Ponting]

If you are interested in another example of burials under the floors of houses in the Neolithic, there is an excellent example at Khirokitia in Cyprus. Some of the huts have been restored, with an area of glass floor to see the skeletons. From Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirokitia

"The dead were buried in crouched positions just under the floors of the houses. In some instances provision was made for offerings so presumably a form of ancestor cult existed inside households."

Well worth a visit if you find yourself in southern Cyprus.
Gerald
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  From: ewc 
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  Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [Stones] Stonehenge Decoded?


  Ric

  <<yea>>

  It seems you are not familiar with Hebridean archaeology. It is unnecessary to raise matters such as Catal Huyuk to demonstrate the possibility of intramural burials - since we have lots of examples of (contemporaneous) intramural burials (of animals and animal parts) in the Iron Age in the Uists themselves. It is entirely conceivable that humans remains could have been buried under houses there in the Bronze Age. That is really not the point at issue here. 

  Given the disappointing style of your response however, I am disinclined to discussing the matter further

  rob

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    Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:17 AM
    Subject: Re: [Stones] Stonehenge Decoded?


          --- On Wed, 4/6/08, ewc <ewc at onetel.net> wrote:

B) the house was accidentally built on an old graveyard.

B seems to me rather more likely ... to say the very least. And 
the 'proof' (!) offered that things were otherwise seems to me......
rather 
slender...surely our expectation of adequate standards of 
objectivity from professors is one of the foundation stones of the open 
society that we have come to value and enjoy?


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