- 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...
-
scavenging animals,
especially vultures,
bears and jackals.
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...
-
Burial Natural burial Sky
burial Ocean 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...
- decomposed, when the
bones were
moved to the tomb – a
process known as
excarnation. At 1,525 m long (nearly 1 mile), the
Tooth Cave is the
longest cave...
