Burial - Blog Posts
Sean bienvenidos japonistasarqueológicos, ha una noticia arqueológica nipona en esta ocasión nos trasladamos a la protohistoria nipona y para ser más precisos al periodo Kofun(こふんじだい) 250 al 592 d.c finales de siglo VI para ser más exactos, dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - Se ha descubierto un grupo de tumbas con túneles subterráneos que datan de la primera mitad del Medio Kofun Miyakonojo Aihara, localizados en la ciudad de Miyakonojo, prefectura de Miyazaki. Muchos de ellos tienen las cámaras funerarias en donde se consagran los cadáveres, pero uno de los 22 que se encontraron tenía una forma inusual, ya que una piedra bloqueaba el medio del hoyo horizontal. - Las paredes están pintadas con tinte rojo y otra con dos fosas que conducían a la misma cámara funeraria. Las tumbas subterráneas de entrada horizontal, que se descubrieron en la ciudad de Ebino alrededor del siglo IV ya que era lo que se creía anteriormente, pero ahora es posible que muchas de ellas las estuvieran construyendo al mismo tiempo. - El segundo sondeo que se realizó en mayo del año pasado 2022, se habían excavado aproximadamente unos 4.200 metros cuadrados. También se encontraron unos artículos funerarios como: espadas de hierro y puntas de flecha en la cámara funeraria y en las fosas. El suelo se rellenará a partir de enero del próximo año y se completará un informe a finales del año fiscal 2023. - 日本の考古学者の皆さん、今回は日本の原始時代、正確には6世紀末の古墳時代（西暦250年〜592年）に話を移します。 - 宮崎県都城市にある古墳時代中期前半の地下トンネルを持つ古墳群「都城相原」が発見された。その多くは死体を安置する埋葬室を備えているが、発見された22基のうち1基は、横穴の真ん中を石が塞いでいるという珍しい形をしていた。 - 壁には赤い染料が塗られ、もうひとつには同じ埋葬室につながる2つの穴がある。えびの市で発見された横穴式地下古墳は、従来考えられていたように4世紀頃に発見されたが、現在では多くの古墳が同時期に造られていた可能性がある。 - 昨年5月に行われた第2回目の調査では、約4,200平方メートルを発掘していました。また、鉄剣や矢じりなどの墓誌類も埋葬室や穴から発見された。来年1月から土壌の埋め戻しを行い、2023年度中に報告書を完成させる予定です。 - Welcome Japanese archaeologists, this time we move to the Japanese protohistory and to be more precise to the Kofun period(こふんじだい) 250 to 592 AD at the end of the 6th century to be more exact, that said make yourselves comfortable and let's start. - A group of tombs with underground tunnels dating back to the first half of the Middle Kofun Miyakonojo Aihara, located in Miyakonojo City, Miyazaki Prefecture, have been discovered. Many of them have the burial chambers where corpses are enshrined, but one of the 22 that were found had an unusual shape, with a stone blocking the middle of the horizontal hole. - The walls are painted with red dye and another with two pits leading to the same burial chamber. Underground tombs with a horizontal entrance, which were discovered in the city of Ebino around the 4th century as it was previously believed, but it is now possible that many of them were being built at the same time. - The second survey, which was carried out in May last year 2022, had excavated approximately 4,200 square metres. Some grave goods such as iron swords and arrowheads were also found in the burial chamber and in the pits. The soil will be backfilled from January next year and a report will be completed by the end of fiscal year 2023.
After Indian Mystic Poet Kabir Das
Kabir walked after death,
Walked his own body to a grave.
Flowers bloomed and plucked themselves
Out of their homes,
Placed themselves in the middle
Of life and a walk to the grave
To let a man leave in peace.
Kashi born,
He walked with the conviction
He had in his knowledge,
Challenged the Orthodoxes,
Challenged the convention;
Kashi born guaranteed a place in heavens
He gave it all up,
Got himself cremated and burried at the same time,
Got himself fights throughout life
And even afterwards,
Got himself a piece of satisfaction,
Got himself legends and disciples
And angry purohits,
Got a piece of logic and equality of castes
When there were no such words
And Brahmins were gods.
Man dead already,
Looked at his funerals,
Looked at the burial
And felt his head turn towards Meccah,
Could hear the verses ring in his ears
As the soil washed over the lack of his body:
"We created you from it,
And return you into it,
And from it we will raise you a second time";
Looked at the cremation
And felt his soul return to the gods
As they proceeded with the Antim Sanskaar, chanted:
"When thou hast made him ready,
All possessing Fire,
Then do thou give him over to the Fathers,
When he attains unto the life that waits him,
He shall become subject to the will of gods".
Day 14: Tree
Inspired by the concept of burial pods
A sketch of a nearby barrow. There is a children’s graveyard associated with it (the small stones you see); since stillborn or unbaptized children could not be buried on hallowed ground, in a proper cemetery, people in Ireland in 18-19 centuries buried their stillborn and unbaptized babies themselves. Such improvised unofficial graveyards were normally located in church ruins, on ring forts or on barrows, that is, in spaces that were vernacularly considered sacred / liminal.
This one has a very peaceful vibe in life. I like to think that whoever lies there looks after these children ‘entrusted’ to them.
Was It A Mistake?
Was it a mistake,
When I left you for good?
When I packed the means for fire,
And hauled the timberwood?
Was it a mistake,
When I held you so closely?
When I raised the stakes,
All for some money?
Was it a mistake,
When I sung you farewells,
Only to come back,
And dig deeper than a well,
Into the fresh Earth,
And near it I mourned,
Was it a mistake,
When I buried you beneath the dirt?
all of those funeral options like the tree pod or mushroom shroud or urn with seeds that "feeds" the tree are uhhhh, bullshit. unfortunately. if you want to be a tree when you die, be buried in the ground without a francy casket or embalming, and have a tree planted above you. this is the same thing as any of these hypothetical "tree pods" but it's skipping the scammy cash grab companies trying to capitalize on grief with fake ass science.
cremated remains will not "feed" anything, either. they'll probably impede growth, tbh. cremated remains are non-organic. what's left over after a cremation is hollow, dry, brittle bone fragments that someone like me sweeps up and puts in a big metal blender to create the smooth "ashes" one expects. By all means, go ahead and scatter ashes in nature, but don't expect anything to grow from them.
If you want your body to return to nature after death, go for a green burial or an at-sea burial. there are many dedicated green burial sites in the world, and one also has the option of simply being buried in a more traditional cemetery that allows for simple wicker caskets w/o a vault around them, and the body left unembalmed. If the tree thing is really your jam, go for burial in a dedicated green cemetery that allows your family to plant a sapling above you, or if it is available where you live have your body composted and use the soil to grow plants.
tldr; there are options for green funerals out there, and options for "becoming a tree," but I would not recommend going anywhere near products offering this such as tree pods, etc. as they are expensive scams preying on people's grief for their dumb start up. get composted or green buried 💚🌲 source: I'm a mortuary scientist and provider of both traditional funerals/cremations & green burial/at-sea burial.
BONES, 2022
In fact I really don’t know what is that
I finished paintings with a similar feeling, but this one is overflowing with an incredible ability to be capable, which is inherent in any person
From the 29th March Johnny Abbate at Mooiman Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands <3 <3 <3
Rishi coffin for a commoner
Second Intermediate Period, Dynasty 17, 1580–1550 B.C. (find spot unknown)
In Dynasty 17 a new type of coffin appeared in Thebes: anthropoid, but no longer conceived solely as an inner coffin, and resting on its back because of a change in funerary customs whereby the deceased was no longer laid on one side. The anthropoid coffin was to become the burial container of choice among royals and commoners alike. The earliest examples are decorated in paint with a feather pattern, and so they are known by the Arabic word for “feathered,” rishi. Carved from local sycamore because the Thebans no longer had access to imported cedar, all rishi coffins, royal or private, show the deceased wearing the royal nemes headdress. This example was clearly a stock item made for a commoner, for a blank space was left for the owner’s name to be inserted at the end of the vertical inscription on the lid (a conventional offering formula for the dead).
Great vulture’s wings envelop the legs and lower abdomen. Even the top of the headdress is decorated with a feather pattern so that the deceased appears as a human-headed bird according to the concept of the ba, or mobile spirit. The ba could travel to any place and transform itself into anything it desired. The face on the coffin is painted black, not to represent the unknown owner’s race but to reinforce his identification with Osiris. The flesh of the god of death and resurrection was often shown as black or green to signify the black silt that fertilized the land with each year’s Nile flood, and the new life in the form of green vegetation that it brought forth. Painted on the chest is a pectoral, or chest ornament, in the form of a vulture and cobra, symbols of Nekhbet and Wadjyt, the tutelary goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Burial in a vessel
In the pre-Hispanic era,it was customary to bury the deceased on the floors of the family's homes. Some of the mortuary remains, generally from secondary burials, were found in vessels.
Change Of Burial
During the late bronze age a change occured in the low countries on how people buried their dead. Normally, people were buried in burial mounds. Some of these mounds are still visible today in several countries. However only the elite were buried in such mounds, about 95% of the population were buried in either ditches or cremated.
We actually have very little evidence or remains of the buried common people. In fact on a dig of a bronze age settlement where I was present in Bovenkarspel, the Netherlands, I found a piece of a human hip bone which was lying in a ditch.
The first small change already occured during the middle bronze age, no longer were only the elite placed in these burial mounds but whole families. Sometimes this also included cattle, especially in West-Frisia cattle was seen as a measure of wealth.
During the late bronze age and early iron age, people started to cremate their dead and and placed them in urns on urn fields. This change happened first in the South and slowly spread towards the North between 1100-12BC. But how exactly did such a burial process happen?
The body was placed on a wooden pile and set on fire. After the body was burned, several options were available depending on the time area and the region. These were the options:
1) A burned skeleton grave in which a human-sized grave was dug and the remains of the cremated person was placed inside this grave. 2) An urn grave. The ashes/remains of the dead were placed inside an urn and buried in a small hole in the ground. 3) Fire grave. The collected ashes/remains were thrown in a small hole, the size of that of an urn grave. 4) Fire mound. The remains were left behind on the spot the body was burned and a burial mound was erected on top of it.
Sometimes urns of these urn graves were placed inside a wooden structure, a hall of the dead. Sometimes just one hall for just one dead and other times multiple urns inside one hall. This was a habit mainly practiced by the Eastern Germanic people. Our trusty Cees is an exception however, he got buried in his own personal hall of the dead despite not being cremated. Quite an unusual burial style for West-Frisia.
Research from cremated graves show that the people used locally cut wood for the funeral piles but it is uncertain if grave gifts were burned along on the pile during the bronze age. We know this did happen during the iron age because most of the cremated remains belonged to objects not human beings.
I personally find it a shame that they started to burn their dead because we now have very little objects, clothing and bodies from the iron age compared to the bronze age.
Here are photos of: Danish burial mounds Depiction of an urn field Several ways of cremation An Anglo-Saxon burial urn Cees’ hall of the dead Depiction of an Urn burial by an unknown artist