- In
archaeology and anthropology, the term
excarnation (also
known as
defleshing)
refers to the
practice of
removing the
flesh and
organs of the dead before...
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cloth sacks.
Marks on some
bones show cut-marks of a
nature indicative of
defleshing, but most
appear to
suggest disarticulation of
adult skeletons. Murphy...
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proceedings included cremation (in the
included crematorium) as well as
defleshing of the body
before the cremation. Once the
houses had
served their purpose...
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Facility used for
defleshing bones for long-term preservation...
- ****ociated
skullcap fragments, as well as deep cut
marks consistent with
defleshing on his parietals, left ch****bone,
frontal bone, and
occipital bone. BOU-VP-16/2...
- and the cut
marks found on the
bones suggest that
butchering and prey-
defleshing took
place near fireplaces. In addition,
hominins living in
Qesem cave...
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uncovered inside a cave
hamlet that show
distinct signs of
butchering and
defleshing,
confirming contemporary European accounts of the Ximimes.
Typically lone...
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cannibalistic tendencies have been
explained as
either ritual defleshing, pre-burial
defleshing (to
prevent scavengers or foul smell), an act of war, or simply...
- prey
items (that is,
defleshing the
human face
simply required more cuts, or the
butcherers were less
familiar with
defleshing humans). Nonetheless,...
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evidence suggests an
adoption of non-Buddhist,
Zoroastrian practices of
defleshing the dead as an
animal offering.
These practices most
likely came out of...
