Re: Cremation Burials:Europe/India

From: kalyan97
Message: 13366
Date: 2002-04-19

--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:> > <<After cremation, the
urn, perhaps containing ashes and bones, is interred > within a
circular memorial.>>>
> Why do you say, perhaps? If this is archaeological evidence, there
would > have to be ashes and bone. Or the site could not be called a
cremation > burial. Is this textual or actual evidence?

This is actual evidence. I said perhaps, because the full
archaeological report is not yet published; I am citing that it was a
post-cremation pot burial based only on newspaper reports and
sporadic seminar papers or monographs, published by the excavator,
Dr. Bisht. It is a sorry state of affairs that many archaeological
reports are not published in India. Only two reports have come out
during the last 50 years: S. R. Rao's Lothal and Dwa_raka and S. M.
Ali's Daimabad excavations.