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Houses for the dead...what about the living?
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Re: Houses for the dead...what about the living?
Sep 06, 2010, 13:31
wideford wrote:
Though neither function is known to have been combined in prehistory they are now coming round that it cuts both ways i.e. tombs have mimicked houses and houses tombs - one measures a circle starting anywhere apparently


Something about that in Bradley's book, Significance of Monuments, studies elsewhere in Europe show longhouses and the theory put forward, that the long mounds are copies of the long houses. 'House of the living' sometimes lying by 'houses of the dead'
or perhaps the local leader dying and the house that he lived in will be left to rot around his body...
The habit of burying something in your house foundations, walls, etc has a long history...
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