Re: Cranial Indexing

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

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@...>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:03 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Cranial Indexing
>
>
> > --- In cybalist@..., "Gerry Reinhart-Waller" <waluk@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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!)
> > >
> > > Torsten
> > >
> > >
> > > 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

> > an
> > > indication of a "violent" culture.
> > >
> > > 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
>
> Perhaps the early cultures that cremated rather than buried their

dead were

> preparing for a ritual barbeque. Could have cult significance

expecially if

> mushrooms were added or even hemp. Did Celts cremate what?

Humans? The

> enemy? Other primates? Lamb? Differentiating between a barbeque

and a

> cremation in the archaeological record is extremely difficult.
>
> Gerry

Please forgive ms. Reinhart-Waller. She's on a diet.

Torsten