Re: Cranial Indexing

--- In cybalist@..., "Gerry Reinhart-Waller" <waluk@...> wrote:

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> One thing that struck me as odd is that in Denmark in the Early

Roman

> Iron Age, with mixed grave types, weapons are found only in

cremation

> graves. Now what does _that_ mean? Did the invasion leader decide to
> base his power on the natives instead? I give up. (Doesn't happen
> often!)
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> Torsten
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> Cremating someone is "without soul or feeling". It's reducing

humanity to

> the least common denominator.

At the very least, those who practise it can't be very strong
believers in resurrection.

> If weapons were found in cremation graves, then, IMO, it should be

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> indication of a "violent" culture.
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> Gerry Reinhart-Waller

And it was the time and place of the bog corpses, so you're probably
right about the violence. I would believe myself that inhumation came
with a religion which believed in an afterlife, in the Zalmoxis
tradition.

Whoever invaded might have faced, given the relative sizes of
populations, the same dilemma as Alexander the Great: go native or
perish.

Did the Celts cremate? Or should one connect that custom with the
hypothetical "Nordwestblock" language between Celtic and Germanic?

Torsten