Five Reasons for Moving an Entire Skeleton
The Western conceptions of death and funerals usually consists of a single primary burial: whether the individual is interred in a casket or cremated in an urn. However, throughout history […]
Category Archives: Funeral Practices
Pre-Natufian Cemetery with Human and Fox Burial
Studies of cemeteries have been extremely important during the earliest phases of the transition from mobile hunter/gatherers to sedentary agriculturalists. Mortuary studies can aid in interpretations about how culture changed […]
New Sican Tomb and Deeper Look at Funerary Practices
Announced last week, a 1,200 year old Sican tomb has been discovered in the Lambayaque region of Peru. This region is found along the North coast. The excavation is part […]
Beneath El Diablo lies… fingers?
The finds beneath the El Diablo pyramid at the site of El Zotz in Guatemala have been confusing archaeologists from Brown University. They knew that the pyramid belonged to the […]
Mortuary Change and the Rise of Civilization
Ten thousand years ago in the fertile lands of the Near East, the first large sedentary communities were being established. Plants and animals were becoming increasingly domesticated, as populations became […]
Studying the Capacocha, the Incan Mummy Children Revealed
The study of the Incan child mummies just made a huge leap forward. In the last decade we have news and research done on three of these mummies in particular, […]
More on the First Feast…
The debate over the first feast from a cave in Israel (discussed here earlier) has continued. Now the evidence has been turned into a nice narrative and even been illustrated. […]
Earliest Recorded Funeral Fest…
…Or perhaps just another theory blown out of proportion by the media. Today’s big news in the archaeological world was the finding of a 12,000 year old feast in commemoration […]
Bones Don't Lie 