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...

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...

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...

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...

is a Tibetan open-air excarnation funerary practice. Sky burial may also refer to: Dakhma, a Zoroastrian open-air excarnation funerary practice Space...

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...

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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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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they were left in the open air. It is also not known where the act of excarnation took place prior to the deposition of bones within the chambers. Some...

Story of Sanjan. Brill Publishers. pp. 205, 206. ISBN 9789047430421. "Excarnation and the City: The Tower of Silence in Mumbai". Topographies of Faith:...

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