RE: Question: ancient burials.
April 21, 2019 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2019 at 11:07 am by Anomalocaris.)
(April 21, 2019 at 9:27 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(April 21, 2019 at 9:24 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Really depends on what you're looking for. The earliest evidence of people throwing the dead into holes in the ground is alot older than the line archaeologists and anthropologists draw for burials.
And "sky burials" probably are older still. Leave the body to make the scavengers happy and they'll leave you alone.
All predators are also scavengers. So sky burial was probably a way to keep predators bent on scavenging away from inconvenient thoughts of easy opportunistic predation.
But it may require moving the corpse quite a distance, say half a mile or a mile, before it is so far away large predators coming to scavenge on it won’t also come to investigate the cave or camp site. So initial burial might be a way to dispose of the corpse with less work than disposing Of it on the surface a proper distance away.
