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	Tees Archaeology - Street House Long Cairn
		Excarnation was common practice in the early prehistoric periods although it seems a bizarre and grisly practice today.
		Excarnation is the process of leaving a body to the elements in order that the soft tissue is stripped away leaving the bare bones.
		There was some paving within the enclosure which may have been an excarnation platform for placing fresh corpses.
	www.teesarchaeology.com /projects/street_house_long_cairn/index.html (687 words)

	Excarnation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In archaeology and anthropology the term excarnation refers to the burial practice adopted by some societies of removing the flesh of the dead, leaving only the bones.
		Excarnation may be precipitated through natural means, involving leaving a body exposed for animals to scavenge, or it may be purposefully undertaken by butchering the corpse by hand.
		In the middle ages, excarnation was practiced by European cultures as a way of preserving the bones when the deceased was of high status, or had died some distance from home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Excarnation (280 words)

	Excarnation - blastclick.com
		Excarnation took form in 2001 with the two founding members being Mark Britton (keyboards and vocals) and Chris Williamson (guitars and bass).
		After the release of ‘Excarnation’ the 'Winter Burial' MCD was recorded and self-released.
		A year of stagnation ensued due to Mark Britton leaving the band's home town of Kenilworth but Excarnation was reborn in the Summer of 2003 with a full live line-up now featuring Adam Yarnall on the drums and Adam Moore on the bass.
	www.blastclick.com /bands/149 (326 words)

	Excarnation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In (The branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures) archaeology and (The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings) anthropology the term excarnation refers to the burial practice adopted by some societies of removing the flesh of the dead, leaving only the bones.
		Examples of the former include the (Click link for more info and facts about Tibetan sky burial) Tibetan sky burial and (The Shoshonean language spoken by the Comanche people) Comanche platform burials.
		One notable example of a person who underwent excarnation following death was (Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)) Christopher Columbus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ex/Excarnation.htm (257 words)

	5- Conspicuous evidence for Early Farmers in the Landscape
		Roger Mercer found the soil in the interior of the enclsure full of small pieces of human bone and in one of the ditches the lower half of a skeleton of a small boy where it had been dragged by some wild animal.
		Mercer identified the monument as a place of excarnation where bodies were exposed to the elements after death until the flesh had rotted away.
		Investigation of the alignment of long barrows in the Windmill Hill/Avebury region shows that they have the broad ends of the mounds, where the megalithic chambers are or where the remains of the bodies were placed in an earthen long barrow, facing in a general easterly direction.
	www.btinternet.com /~ron.wilcox/onlinetexts/onlinetexts-chap5.htm (5802 words)

	AI Europa - Gallia: Mythology & Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Okay, so excarnation doesn't just mean what I thought it did (actually cutting the flesh off the bones of the dead, which some cultures did) and now I'm embarassed...
		Excarnation wasn't a general practise for the Celts as it was in some societies, where it was the usual prelude to burial - the Celtic peoples seem to have reserved it for those slain in combat.
		I'm not sure, but I don't think the "Celtic" peoples generally practiced excarnation, the usual method of burial in the La Tene period was inhumation in enclosures for their own dead.
	www.antiquatedideas.com /cgi-antiquatedideas/europa/topic.cgi?forum=51&topic=12 (1437 words)

	Orkneyjar - How were the chambered cairns used?
		In these cases, the communities may also have relied on the local wildlife to assist in the excarnation process - laying out the corpse until the birds had picked the bones clean.
		Again, we can’t say for certain, but the importance placed on excarnation could indicate that the Neolithic Orcadians believed that a person’s soul, or spirit, was only released once the flesh had decayed.
		At this stage, the spirit was free to join the ancestors in the "house of the dead".
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/tombs/tombuse.htm (722 words)

	Amazon.com: Excarnation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Buddhism, is not incarnation but "excarnation." The second is the secularist...
		'burial-place' paradigm by proposing that excarnation - i.
		Mellaart's interpretation, this practice of "excarnation" was carried out not for...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Excarnation&index=blended&page=1 (1129 words)

	Archaeology Review 1996 - 97 : 4.13.1 Longstone Edge, Derbyshire. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The earliest phase was marked by an excarnation platform containing numerous sherds of Neolithic pottery and fragments of human bone.
		The bones represent all age groups and the assemblage recovered (small bones and fragments of long bones) indicates that bodies were exposed before the defleshed skeletons were collected for burial elsewhere.
		Various burials and cremations were placed within the mound throughout its construction, and a final burial was inserted in the eastern side of the mound during the Romano-British period.
	www.eng-h.gov.uk /archrev/rev96_7/long.htm (283 words)

	Burial site holds key to Neolithic life
		A 5,000-YEAR-OLD "excarnation platform", where the bodies of prehistoric humans were left to rot and be picked clean by predators, has been found in the Peak District.
		One puzzle is the large number of water vole bones, perhaps caught by birds of prey and eaten or digested at the exposure platform.
		The excarnation platform probably fell into disuse when beliefs changed and people began to retain their individuality and be revered after death.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/17/nbury17.html (621 words)

	Burial site holds key to Neolithic life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A 5,000-YEAR-OLD "excarnation platform", where the bodies of prehistoric humans were left to rot and be picked clean by predators, has been found in the Peak District.
		One puzzle is the large number of water vole bones, perhaps caught by birds of prey and eaten or digested at the exposure platform.
		The excarnation platform probably fell into disuse when beliefs changed and people began to retain their individuality and be revered after death.
	www.arcl.ed.ac.uk /a1/stoppress/stop215.htm (568 words)

	Excarnation. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Excarnation took form in 2001 with the two founding members being Mark Britton
		After the release of ‘Excarnation’ the 'Winter Burial' MCD was recorded and self-released.
		Kenilworth but Excarnation was reborn in the Summer of 2003 with a full live line-up now
	www.odium.org.uk /excarnpic1.htm (187 words)

	Catal Huyuk #3
		Of course, the flesh was removed from the body before burial in the traditional process of excarnation.
		The vulture shrines at Catal Huyuk portray in eerie frescoes the excarnation practices wherein the dead were exposed, in open funeral houses of strange design, to the tearing beak of the griffin vulture, who stripped the skeleton of soft tissue.
		One painting shows a vulture with human legs, wings outspread over a tiny headless figure; it is the Goddess in her vulture epiphany, reclaiming what was always hers.
	www.telesterion.com /catal3.htm (2770 words)

	17. Criticism and defects of writing and language
		In his article on the work of the French Guild "Companions du Devoir", Bernard (1985) presents an argumentation that parallels that of Leroi-Gourhan (1984), and he describes the problems engendered by the "aberration" of excarnation, the separation of manual and intellectual work.
		He presents the argument that the hand and the mind are complementary, and "the hand is not the mere instrument of the mind, but its close associate" (p.
		[523] Referring to the excarnation / incarnation dichotomy in the history of Christianity that Aleida Assmann refers to in (1993: 133, 141-143).
	www.uni-ulm.de /uni/intgruppen/memosys/desn23.htm (6098 words)

	Exhumation
		An example is the Mercy Brown Vampire Incident of Rhode Island, which occurred in 1892.
		Excarnation consists of exhumating the remnants to give them to animals.
		It was probably part of the bronze age death rites.
	www.deardeath.com /exhumation.htm (440 words)

	Earthsongs:The Journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans, Issue 4.3, Samhain, 2000. Tomb of the Eagles:The Treasure of ...
		The skulls are collected together, as are the long bones and the smaller bones indicating that the bodies of the dead were excarnated or exposed to the elements prior to being entombed.
		This method of handling the remains of the dead is called excarnation The Tomb of the Eagles appears to have been a collective tomb for the entire Neolithic community at South Ronaldsay.
		If the bodies were exposed to the elements prior to being gathered and arranged in the tomb then it is very possible that the flesh was removed by eagles and other birds, dogs and pigs.
	www.faeryshaman.org /es44/es44arc3.htm (1024 words)

	Wordsmith.org: excarnation, again
		"excarnation" is the (to us revolting) practice of putting dead human and animal bodies on elevated platforms
		The excarnation sites are called 'Towers of Silence' and are themselves rather expensive to build.
		For Zoraoastrians the elements, fire, earth, water, wind are very sacred and this method is chosen to prevent defiling the environment.
	www.wordsmith.org /board/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/122327/Board/14/page/3/fpart/all/gonew/1 (2710 words)

	Ethics and Phenomenology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Thus, phenomenologists and existentialists would be medically, pharmaceutically, or biologically excarnating wonder or awe from the lived world, even if they refute positivism and analytics' portrayal of awe or wonder as wrong and insist on wonder or awe as revealing reality.
		Non-biochemically, Ricoeur is criticizing Cartesian dualism for ignoring the embodiment of the objective.
		Totally reducing knowledge or reality to the empirical means excarnating or taking sensation out of the social realm comprising ethos.
	www.iep.utm.edu /e/eth-phen.htm (9418 words)

	www.myspace.com/excarnation
		Excarnation took form in 2001 with the two founding members being Mark Britton (keyboards and vocals) and Chris Williamson (guitars and bass).
		A year of stagnation ensued due to Mark Britton leaving the band's home town of Kenilworth but Excarnation was reborn in the Summer of 2003 with a full live line-up now featuring Adam Yarnall on the drums and Adam Moore on the bass.
		HailSS excarnation, thanks for the add, your creations are pure and really good.
	www.myspace.com /excarnation (454 words)

	Physics at Minnesota: Taghairm
		It is on the site of a much early neolithic causewayed camp; quite what causewayed camps were used for is unclear but their main function seems to have been for ritual rather than, say, defence.
		One plausible suggestion is that they were the places used for excarnation of corpses, a topic to which I will return.
		The custom of excarnation, that is placing the dead on an elevated platform or hanging them from trees, is found over an immense area that includes a large part of Central and Northern Asia, as well as part of Africa.
	www.physics.umn.edu /support/www/taghairm.html?printer=yes& (3334 words)

	Re: Our religion
		An early attested practice, such as excarnation (which can be attested from at least Achemenid times both in primary sources and in the archaeological record), is probably the result of the prophet’s direct teaching, or the inference of his teaching drawn by early disciples.
		Instead we would have to conclude that they are genuine teachings even if the point source of the teaching is lost.
		If both teachings are valid, then the possibilities for disposal of the dead seem limited, and excarnation seems to be a logical deduction of the teaching, but it is not a less vlaid part of Zoroastrainism for being a deduction.
	www.zarathushtra.com /z/discussion1/_disc1/00000052.htm (698 words)

	www.myspace.com/excarnation666
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		Excarnation may be precipitated through natural means, involving leaving a body exposed for animals to scavenge, or it may be purposefully undertaken by butchering the corpse by hand." Taken from - en.wikipedia.org
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	www.myspace.com /excarnation666 (465 words)

	The Plot Thickens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The idea here is that when a person dies, you only want to store their bones in the chambered tomb.
		So you put their body on the excarnation platform and let the elements and local wildlife excarnate.
		Yeah, the map says the ring of Brodgar is up the road, but just walk your bike a bit farther and lean it up against the fence.
	joe.sameperson.net /tpt/index.php?pid=879 (703 words)

	nde
		If excarnation was part of the bronze age death rites, then it may have been part of everyday life to see dogs and other scavengers gnawing on human corpses, reducing most of the bones to small fragments in the process.
		It might also explain the 'Tombs of the eagles' in Orkney, so-called because the human remains were accompanied by the bones of large raptors - especially those species most given to scavenging.
		If burial in a chamber tomb was reserved for the lite, and the common funereal customs involved excarnation, then it would be normal belief to see the body and soul of the dead being consumed and carried skyward by sea eagles.
	www.damagedcorpse.com /nde/black_dog/trubshaw2.html (5011 words)

	Vulture
		It was reported that those birds would then bless the corpses by tapping them three times with their beaks before consuming them.
		Niema Ash, who visited Tibet in the 1980's, describes excarnation or sky-burial [jha-tor: alms-giving to birds] in her short book, Flight of the Wind Horse: A Journey Into Tibet.
		An hour's walk out of town past the local dump, she and a friend reach a small stony plateau where five Tibetan men and a boy are drinking tea and joking:
	www.khandro.net /animal_bird_vulture.htm (2612 words)

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		The mind comes to terms with the external world by making inferences, some of which are grounded in external reality ("that is a table") and some which are not ("there's a monster under my bed").
		Some people infer a super-natural order of reality and think that we were created by it ("incarnation" is compatible with this view), rather than acknowledging that it is the other way around ("excarnation").
		We should not suppose that an "excarnationalist" point of view disvalues our religious impulses and practices when it insists that the physical brain is necessary for a spiritual life — but we would be going beyond the evidence to suggest that it is sufficient.
	home.clear.net.nz /pages/noel.cheer/excarnation.htm (1108 words)

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	Open letter to Johanna
		Or in other words, his blindness has made him into a senile degenerate living a 'second childhood' who is drawing his last breath to blow out the candles on his birthday cake.
		It's as if mankind has inhaled and is anxious to exhale because this is his last excarnation.
		It is my last excarnation, my last exhalation after seven years of meditation in the middle of nowhere."
	www.geocities.com /kankerboek/Letter_Johanna.html (918 words)

	Neolithic Age in Anatolia and Asia Minor
		Inside the houses were the raised platforms and benches running around the room which they used for sleeping and sitting.
		They also decorated their walls with spectacular paintings which depict religious figurines, death and excarnation, hunting, wild animals, flowers, geometric patterns, imprints of hands, stars etc. They painted even an erupting volcano.
		Ceramics and pottery produced during this period are mono-chrome were built in a better shape and polished.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/neolithic.htm (676 words)

	Göbekli Tepe - Eden, Home Of The Watchers
		These were said to have included the use of herbs and plants, metallurgy, the fashioning of weapons, female beautification, and astronomy, many of the firsts accredited to the Early Neolithic world in Upper Mesopotamia.
		The excarnation frescoe as seen on a wall at Çatal Hüyük.
		They are repeatedly referred to in pseudepigraphical literature as birdmen, and we know that the Neolithic period's highly prominent cult of the dead was focused around excarnation, and
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /arqueologia/gobekli_tepe01.htm (2522 words)

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