Houses for the dead​…what about the living?

Sanctuary S
Sanctuary Sep 6, 2010 13:47:32
Replying to faerygirl

faerygirl wrote:
How about the use of barrows as tripping chambers. There is a reasonable amount of evidence that caves were used to experiment with mushrooms and psycadelic plants, but what if there arn't any caves close by??? MAKE SOME!

It makes sense that barrows and things would be used before they became houses for the dead. This is why I have a problem with the dates put on burial chambers and stone monuments. Basing the age of something on the age of the corpse inside seems a bit silly to me; you could bury me in my house, it wouldnt make this Victorian house 28years old!

Good point...now I hope you're not lying about your age?? heh heh

T tiompan
tiompan Sep 6, 2010 14:18:43
Replying to Sanctuary

Sanctuary wrote:
faerygirl wrote:
How about the use of barrows as tripping chambers. There is a reasonable amount of evidence that caves were used to experiment with mushrooms and psycadelic plants,

It makes sense that barrows and things would be used before they became houses for the dead. This is why I have a problem with the dates put on burial chambers and stone monuments. Basing the age of something on the age of the corpse inside seems a bit silly to me; you could bury me in my house, it wouldnt make this Victorian house 28years old!

Good point...now I hope you're not lying about your age?? heh heh
What evidence do we have for "tripping chambers " ?

We don't have dates for builds unless there is a dateable deposit underneath the structure which can only provide a terminus post quem date , the dating otherwise has to be an assumption based on typology and guesswork .If you were buried in a Victorian house then we would at least know that the build date of the house predated the burial but a victorian house would provide an immense amount of info to help date it that we simply don't have with prehistoric monuments .

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