Fwd: RE: [Aztlan] Day of the Dead - Maya Style

[Larry Miller]

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>From: "Clifford T. Brown" <ctbrown at fau.edu>
>To: "Aztlan" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
>Subject: RE: [Aztlan] Day of the Dead - Maya Style
>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:09:00 -0500
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> > However, the practice of secondary burial (exhuming
> > the bones of a family member and re-interring them in
> > an ossuary or other religious deposit), can be traced
> > back much further in both the Maya and Spanish
> > Catholic traditions.
>
>There was an M.A. thesis from Mississippi State written some years ago in
>which it was argued--fairly convincingly, I thought--that the practice of
>exhumation and the use of ossuaries went back to the Romans.
>
>Cliff

The practice of reburial and the use of ossuaries was commonplace in Judea 
in the pre Roman and Roman periods.
Larry
Larry M Miller
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Director of Judaic Studies
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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