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Anthropology

Warpy

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1. Skeletons were often jumbled together in this period

Reply to Wicked Blue (Original post)

Wed Jul 26, 2023, 02:32 PM

Jul 2023

Death was a process and people were individuals until all that remained were their bones. Those bones could be treated with respect and reburied with great ceremony, but usually in a place where other bones of the dead had been kept. It was a final goodbye as the individual disappeared completely into wherever the other ancestors had gone.

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Skeletons were often jumbled together in this period Warpy Jul 2023 #1