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Secondary Burial

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Secondary Burial
A rite in certain aboriginal cultures in which a body is buried after the flesh has been stripped from the bones by the elements and various scavengers


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If secondary burials existed in the tarand graves after the end of the Roman Iron Age, also those were without considerable grave goods.
Secondary burials, more common in the Late Natufian, reflect even more elaborate processes of re-opening graves and involving dead bodies in likely ceremonial practices.
TCR 07, another locality traced in the region where the rings were also used for secondary burial.
 
 
 
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