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tiompan Jan 10, 2010 16:31:13
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
"Birds ? unless they were doing the business ."


Yes I suppose so, though always liked the idea of Tibetan sky burials and vultures doing the job, but I suppose it was the aptly named carrion crow that could have picked the flesh clean.. Can't remember where I read that idea might have been Francis Pryor.

there was that 18 th C ? bloke , can't remember his name , did drawings of red Indians /native Americans , Mandans? and was a big influence on the suggestion that excarnation may have been used here .

M moss
moss Jan 10, 2010 16:53:16
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
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there was that 18 th C ? bloke , can't remember his name , did drawings of red Indians /native Americans , Mandans? and was a big influence on the suggestion that excarnation may have been used here .
Remember that, there's an illustration in Burls' Prehistoric Avebury, it was George Caitlin who painted the picture of the four poster platforms of the Mandans.
Burl takes excarnation for granted, mentions Catal Huyuk platforms, so you're saying that the idea of excarnation is just an idea? though to be fair it happens in lots of places so it could easily have happened here as well, thats how they explain four timber posts here as platforms....