[Stones] Intramural burials

[Ric]

thanks; again, this domestic proximity of the dead to the living may be something which travelled, with agriculture, far and wide beyond ancient Anatolia?


Ric

--- On Thu, 5/6/08, Gerald Ponting <gponting at clara.net> wrote:

From: Gerald Ponting <gponting at clara.net>
Subject: [Stones] Intramural burials
To: "The Stones Mailing List" <stones at stoneslist.org.uk>
Date: Thursday, 5 June, 2008, 8:44 AM


 


 
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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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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