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Re: Time Team R.I.P. ?
Jan 10, 2010, 16:31
moss wrote:
"Birds ? unless they were doing the business ."


Yes I suppose so, though always liked the idea of Tibetan sky burials and vultures doing the job, but I suppose it was the aptly named carrion crow that could have picked the flesh clean.. Can't remember where I read that idea might have been Francis Pryor.


there was that 18 th C ? bloke , can't remember his name , did drawings of red Indians /native Americans , Mandans? and was a big influence on the suggestion that excarnation may have been used here .
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