- [l] [[2022.01.26a broken heart syndrome and human sacrifice customs]] - [l] [[2022.03.09a Exotic foods serve ritual purposes]] - [l] [[2020-09-07 Tombs]] - [l] [[2022-08-22 Interment]] - [n] [[Suttee Sacral Kingship and Human Sacrifice|sacrifice]] - [n] [[Norse burials]] - [b] [[A Death Full of Life by Gabrielle Anctil]] - [b] Tibetans [moved bodies into caves ritually](https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-05-01/New-archaeological-findings-reveal-prehistoric-civilization-in-Tibet-19Gu1WlPxbq/index.html) - [b] [The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, from 9,000 years ago](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220318110255.htm) ; see also: [[neolithic people in Anatolia redecorated after funerals]] - [b] [A child’s grave is the earliest known burial site in Africa](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00805-6) * ["] "The discovery of the burial of a young child in a cave in Kenya around 78,000 years ago sheds new light on the role of symbolism in the treatment of the dead during the Middle Stone Age." - [b] [Putting the corpse of a monk inside of a metal statue](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/comments/urulgn/hold_on/) is apparently a thing. - [b] people who lived in north-west Arabia in the Early to Middle Bronze Age built '[funerary avenues](https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/01/archaeologists-discover-ancient.html)'—long-distance corridors linking oases and pastures, bordered by thousands of elaborate burial monuments. - [b] Aztatlán [burial mounds](https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/05/archaeologists-unearth-an-aztatlan-burial-site/143750) covered with rammed shell debris and evidence of perishable structures, whilst beneath the floor level the researchers found human burials and Aztatlán-style glass. - At the end of the "[[Bronze Age]]," iron tools were broken during funerary rights as a status symbol, and iron tools and weapons would have been limited mostly to the elite. [Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ktqfar/it_is_1000_bce_and_im_a_farmer_in_the_eastern/) (used for afterword of [[Civil Mage Chapter 02 - Valentia]]