Re: [tied] Re: Cranial Indexing

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From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:21 AM
Subject: [tied] 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


Could be dearie. Yet not a morsel from my lippeth fall.

Love,
a dieting lady of bath