- the term
excarnation (also
known as defleshing)
refers to the
practice of
removing the
flesh and
organs of the dead
before burial.
Excarnation may be achieved...
- animals,
especially carrion birds like
vultures and corvids.
Comparable excarnation practices are part of
Zoroastrian burial rites where deceased are exposed...
- site by
scattered communities, the
enclosures as
funerary centres for
excarnation or the
construction of the site
being a
communal act of
creation by a...
- خاموشان), is a circular,
raised structure built by
Zoroastrians for
excarnation (that is, the
exposure of
human corpses to the
elements with the purpose...
-
Anthropodermic bibliopegy (books
bound in
human skin)
Degloving Écorché
Excarnation Lingchi Scalping p.69
Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Haut. p. 69. Ernst...
-
other alterations,
which could be
evidence of
mortuary practices like
excarnation.
Fossils of
Herto Man were
first recovered in 1997 from the
Upper Herto...
- is a
Tibetan open-air
excarnation funerary practice. Sky
burial may also
refer to: Dakhma, a
Zoroastrian open-air
excarnation funerary practice Space...
- Neanderthals, like some
contemporary human cultures, may have
practiced excarnation for
presumably religious reasons (see
Neanderthal behavior § Cannibalism...
- wood,
stone or
earthwork barrier, in
which dead
bodies are
placed for
excarnation and to
await secondary and/or
collective burial.
There are some parallels...
- sea. One
theory of use is that
Seahenge was a
mortuary enclosure for
excarnation rather than a meeting-place, like a
henge monument. In view of the relatively...
