Steve Dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
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Krononaut Moon 🌕 · @KronoMoon
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of Arrangement
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"… were decorating with flowers as early as 2,500 . They regularly placed cut flowers in vases & highly stylized arrangements were used during , for & simply as table
…flowers were worn by loved ones and left at the tombs … blue scilla, poppy-flowered anemone, and Iris sibiric…"

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#history #flower #egyptians #bce #burials #processions #decorations #ancient #egypt #flora #antiquity #time #timelessness

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Announced last week, @LeeRberger @johnhawks, @Anthrofuentes et al announced some amazing findings, positing , and even on the walls. worldofpaleoanthropology.org/2 Does this change how we view our recent ? Listen to my in depth analysis.

#naledi #burials #engravings #human #origins

Last updated 1 year ago

were burying their at least 100,000 years before
Team discoverd H. naledi bodies deposited in fetal positions, indicating intentional predating earliest known burials by by 100,000yr, suggesting brain size might not be definitive factor behind such complex behavior. Team also found crosshatched symbols engraved on the walls of the cave that could date as far back as 241,000–335,000 years, although testing is still ongoing.
arstechnica.com/science/2023/0

#homonaledi #dead #humans #burials #homosapiens

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Rabi'a Elizabeth · @rabia_elizabeth
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While the older gravesites at the are not marked, newer graves reflect a Western influence, with more elaborate headstones and cement borders. People buried here recently come from all over the world; Syria is one common place of origin.

#Granada #rauda #burials #burialpractices #cemeteries #islam

Last updated 2 years ago

! Quite Interesting · @notqikipedia
25 followers · 250 posts · Server toot.io

After grave-robbing became more common in the late 1800s in the US, two Ohio men patented the “one half-mile-deep grave”.

#big #hole #burials

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Ben W. Brumfield · @benwbrum
1375 followers · 230 posts · Server hcommons.social

I seem to have found myself the manager of a private . After twenty-five years of part-ownership of the old family farm, we've had two requests for there.

Any advice?

#cemetery #burials

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Michael Shank · @shank
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Love seeing this trend. “The benefits are clear. Every year, in across the country require vast quantities of and to reinforce graves, as well as millions of litres of embalming fluid, which seep harmful into the ground. Meanwhile, cremating one corpse emits the -dioxide equivalent of driving about 750 kilometres in a car.” economist.com/united-states/20 Quite a few young Americans plan to end their days as compost from TheEconomist

#composting #environmental #burials #cemeteries #steel #concrete #chemicals #carbon

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Lorraine Evans · @deathhistorian
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What does an ancient Egyptian dynasty, 3rd century Confucian scholars, a gang of mafia hoods and a grave in a Vermont cemetery, New Haven have in common? No? Well why not pop along this coming Wednesday 8th March, 6.30pm-7.30pm and all shall be revealed (online via Arnos Vale Cemetery - see link below)

arnosvale.org.uk/im-not-dead-t

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#cemetery #cemeterychat #burial #burials #graveyard #graves #grave #prematureburial #prematureburials #ancientegypt #mafia

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flip.it/0S0edz Spectacular Anglo-Saxon burial uncovered – here's what it tells us about women in seventh-century England

#archaeology #burials

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Ibrahim · @silentfactor
6 followers · 87 posts · Server mstdn.social

- Different treatment if not buried in a coffin. can be wrapped in a shroud. An update of the is needed.

"Under French , bodies found in coffins are not artifacts. They are human remains and must be treated with respect."

bit.ly/coffintreatment

#islam #equalprotectionunderthelaw #multiculture #burials #archaeological #law #legislation #muslims #France

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Ibrahim · @silentfactor
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- Different treatment if not buried in a coffin. can be wrapped in a shroud. An update of the is needed.

"Under French , bodies found in coffins are not artifacts. They are human remains and must be treated with respect."

bit.ly/coffintreatment

#islam #equalprotectionunderthelaw #multiculture #burials #archaeological #law #legislation #muslims #France

Last updated 2 years ago

Molly R in MO USA · @whatzaname
187 followers · 1142 posts · Server masto.ai

@boles Ah don't get me started on because when i go i want a sky 🦅 burial but I don't think that will be possible. It seems more in tune with the planet than most other final arrangements.

#burials

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