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Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/assembling-ancestors-the-manipulation-of-neolithic-and-galloroman-skeletal-remains-at-pommeroeul-belgium/A25B2FBB53A9DE7665F30AD14F06A22A
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hi frankenstein's monster
Only part way thru, but I wonder if some might be that someone went missing and their ppl needed a body to bury in order to move on so they took the bones (maybe from various ancestors of the missing person) and put them together as a stand in or symbolic body.
I recall in a book on the Hebrides from the 1940's where a party of gravediggers at a local cemetery had become so drunk and dug so deep they uncovered several other old interments, and were told by the priest to put them back respectfully, but they didn't know which bones were from which burial. so put them back as best they could ! This will probably have some archaeologist totally confused sometime in the future ! So, until lately, it was still going on !
Is 28 years per generation realistic for the Roman age; I would have assumed it would be more like 15-16 years, with women breeding as soon as they passed puberty, which would make 28 generations more like 450 years !
Eh , probably just time travelers messing around
I wonder if "disturbed burial" isn't the answer for the composite bodies generally. You accidentally dig up a few bodies but you don't know exactly which bones go together, you assemble about enough to equal a body then rebury them.
There are probably reasons why this isn't the case here.
Frankenstein’ing skeletons
Could it be the Romans were aware of this culture somehow and this was a way to assimilate with locals who either still practiced it, or had knowledge of it?
8:11 really missed a literal skeleton in their closet joke
Oooh I'm Belgian, I didn't expect my country to have an ~iconic corpse ~ like that
The œ is pronounced similar to the u in murder or run and the e is pretty much silent "pom'rʌl'"
Maybe it's just a practical joke
2:46 Verstorbenenbekanntmachungsvergnügen
Fascinating stuff
Dio?
Probably kids playing with bones.
Dan McClellan often references a religious process by which people would take remains, after a period of time following death, and add them to a pile of their ancestors bones. This is believed to be (potentially) the origin of the phrase "being gathered to the Ancestors". Not sure of a source that would concisely summarize this practice's history, but this appears to be similar to that in some ways
Do you cut the video after every sentence?
Mr beet recommended this channel.
Maybe it's a necromancy-thing?
Very well produced. I loved the cinematography, music, and the editing! This deserves more views. Keep it up; I like your style as well, your love for the topic shines through.
All interesting but the most important question remains: why does Belgium exist?
Alas poor Yorick, indeed! 😉
As a german native I sadly have to inform you, we do not have a word for the sensation of learning the name of a long dead person.
We should though.
I will inform the council.
Its clearly a time traveling serial killer.
Something I think about occasionally is the practice of urns themselves. Like we have a specific jar with a specific purpose that is easily recognizable and easily recognized as special. And we go back to canopic jars and Roman urns and everything.
However, I've also seen burial practices of keeping ppl at home for s specific period of time. It was not at all uncommon for family to take care of the body before the funeral industry. I have heard of a South American man who had his "granny" with him while out with the lads. Granny was a mummy, in his backpack, and way too old to be a relative. He said smthn like in his culture it is important to care for ancestors even if we do not know who they are. And the mad lad just thought granny would enjoy some time out 🤷🤦
I love the idea of decortive boxes for ashes instead of plain metal urns, I'm gonna make a cool box to put myself in when I die
Pommeroeul = pom·mə·rəl . Fun fact, it is now officially part of Bernissart, known for its world unique Iguanodon skeletons!
One question comes to mind. If there were several parts from five individuals from the older period that were carefully buried together, what became of the missing parts. Were they buried elsewhere? Also, were the five related in some way? And might the two burials in Scotland in some way be related? Always enjoy your presentations. Thanks.
You could say he was ahead of his time
"(walking in the woods) so I've been digging around" dawg I thought you meant in the dirt 😂
Hey, I stayed at a B&B near the excavation on Lewis about 30 years ago. They had a beautiful book and pictures from the excavation.
And the wind was definitely howling almost the entire time we were there.
Wonder if it was ritualistic, like a family replacing a bone at a time whenever a member died
Bring back the spoon 🥄
Do you think the burial disturbed by the Roman was headless or do you think an old skull was replaced with the Roman one?
I've always been extremely interested in ancient history and archaeology. I'm enjoying your channel a lot. Only one picky little point. I wish you had fixed the blinds on the window. The sunlight coming through the slats on your face was so distracting! It had to have bothered you too? But, I still watched and enjoyed your channel.
It was Neolithic Dr Frankenstein