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Stoneshifter Oct 29, 2008 16:23:24
Replying to tiompan

You remember the cupmarked Irish stone (well, it was more than cupmarked) in the unbatised infants' graveyard? A few weeks back. It set me wondering whether other carved stones were also markers for an infant gravesite. In Tibet a third of children die before their first birthday and the mortality rate must have been similar here in prehistoric times.

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tiompan Oct 29, 2008 16:41:59
Replying to Stoneshifter

Stoneshifter wrote:
You remember the cupmarked Irish stone (well, it was more than cupmarked) in the unbatised infants' graveyard? A few weeks back. It set me wondering whether other carved stones were also markers for an infant gravesite. In Tibet a third of children die before their first birthday and the mortality rate must have been similar here in prehistoric times.
Markers for burials in general ?. Some Scandanavian marked rocks have seen had fires/pyres close to them . Problem is lack of excavation around marked rocks to get sufficent data to start drawing conclusions . Certainly a number of cremations in association with standing stones .

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