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    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...
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    of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human corpses to the elements for decomposition)...
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    vultures and corvids. It is a specific type of the general practice of excarnation. It is practiced in Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia, as well...
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    plan. Anthropodermic bibliopegy (books bound in human skin) Degloving Excarnation Scalping Écorché p.69 Kleine Kulturgeschichte der Haut. p. 69. Ernst...
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    other alterations, which could be evidence of mortuary practices like excarnation. Fossils of Herto Man were first recovered in 1997 from the Upper Herto...
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  • 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...
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  • is a Tibetan open-air excarnation funerary practice. Sky burial may also refer to: Dakhma, a Zoroastrian open-air excarnation funerary practice Space...
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    to exhaustion and hyperthermia. In Tibetan Buddhism the practice of excarnation – that is, the exposure of dead human bodies to carrion birds and/or...
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  • Neanderthals, like some contemporary human cultures, may have practiced excarnation for presumably religious reasons (see Neanderthal behavior § Cannibalism...
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    Prosection Taxidermy Disposal Burial Natural burial Cremation Dismemberment Excarnation Promession Resomation Beating heart cadaver Body donation Cadaveric spasm...
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    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...
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  • encounter in the tabletop role-playing game, Pathfinder. Angra Mainyu Daeva Excarnation Ritual purification Vendidad Baresma: an Avestan language word for a...
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    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...
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    Analysis of these remains indicated that they had been subjected to excarnation before burial and deposited in possibly four different phases. Postholes...
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