Re: No Roman Invasion?

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> It's quite possible this burial was by Hss rather than Hns, even
> though the corpse was Hns. As I recall, it is unique if Hns, but
> fairly typical of Hss. And as I say, we can reasonably assume
> they regarded this as a worthwhile investment of time and goods,
> rather than a disposal of the remains of dinner.

Burial has a functional reasoning, if you are in competition with
carnivores you don't want to become familiar with eating the remains
of the dead of the species as they might seek to eat that species
when other prey items are scarce aside from losses due to
competition. As a result it is better to bury the dead, or throw them
in the back of a cave and let the cave bugs get them.

There is a psychological component also, one might have a natural
fear of certain predatory animals and one might have negative imagry
seeing those animals prey on ones loved one, particularly a child,
even though the child is dead. There was a show about Japanese Snow
Monkeys where the mother lost a child and she continued to carry the
child for an extended period afterward. There is an instinctive bond
between mother and child that developes during the later part of the
pregnancy that has little to do with social contact, and to some
degree it remains throughout the life of a child.


Judging religion or spirituality by burials, IMHO, is a waste of
time, as one spiritualist said, 'let the dead bury the dead'. The
enterment of remains it a natural behavior that satisfies the need to
grief the loss within intelligent and social animals. Within the
context of spirituality it serves as social healing and a means
within the bounds of tradition to relieve pain of loved ones.
Extending these traditions further than that aspect is the realm of
religion.
I think the way to judge these things in proper is to look at the
pioneers or the situation in africa. According to religion and
ceremonies, ceremonies often last a certain number of days and people
are supposed to mourn a certain length of time. But the pioneers
frequently buried people where they died, and the ceremonies lasted a
bit longer than it took to dig the grave. In africa, with the rise of
AIDS, mourning periods were reduced from a year, to a month, to a
week. These addition of luxorious traditions to funerals is simply an
embellishment of the basic ceremony.


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