Definition of Excarnation. Meaning of Excarnation. Synonyms of Excarnation

- 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...
- خاموشان), is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human corpses to the elements with the purpose...
- to exhaustion and hyperthermia. In Tibetan Buddhism, the practice of excarnation—that is, the exposure of dead human bodies to carrion birds and/or other...
- Anthropodermic bibliopegy (books bound in human skin) Degloving Écorché Excarnation Lingchi Scalping p.69 Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Haut. p. 69. Ernst...
- Neanderthals, like some contemporary human cultures, may have practiced excarnation for presumably religious reasons (see Neanderthal behavior § Cannibalism...
- other alterations, which could be evidence of mortuary practices like excarnation. Fossils of Herto Man were first recovered in 1997 from the Upper Herto...
- Taxidermy Disposal Burial Natural burial Sky burial Cremation Dismemberment Excarnation Promession Resomation Beating heart cadaver Body donation Cadaveric spasm...
- Taxidermy Disposal Burial Natural burial Sky burial Cremation Dismemberment Excarnation Promession Resomation Beating heart cadaver Body donation Cadaveric spasm...
- 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...