BYC Café

[aart]

that is true, but they can tell a lot about what happened by the bones. As an example, they found evidence of Muslim worship in Scandinavian graves which was not expected according to History

How can they tell what religion a person practiced from bones?

 

[pennyJo1960]

I think in those cases it may be what is found with the bones I watch PBS quite bit here

 

[Bunnylady]

How can they tell what religion a person practiced from bones?

Different faiths have/had different ways of dealing with their dead. For some, cremation is normal, for others, it's a desecration. Practitioners of some faiths placed weapons, etc, around the body. The position of the body can be telling, too - early Christian cemeteries were almost always oriented east-west, for example. I believe the traditional Muslim burial has the body lying on its side, facing Mecca, with the hands together as if in prayer (I've been watching Time Team).

 

[ronott1]

How can they tell what religion a person practiced from bones?

Bones for ethnicity and the burial method for Muslim ritual. This was a time when there were not supposed to be any Muslim influence there

 

[ronott1]

Different faiths have/had different ways of dealing with their dead. For some, cremation is normal, for others, it's a desecration. Practitioners of some faiths placed weapons, etc, around the body. The position of the body can be telling, too - early Christian cemeteries were almost always oriented east-west, for example. I believe the classic Muslim burial has the body lying on its side, facing Mecca, with the hands together as if in prayer (I've been watching Time Team).

Yes! This is what they found.

 

[Perris]

This was a time when there were not supposed to be any Muslim influence there

there were not supposed to be - says who? what is that assumption based on?

What date are we talking about here? If the Viking era, the Scandinavians sailed well into (and beyond) the Islamic world, and brought back people as well as things. The Muslims had one of the most developed societies in the world at the time, in the intellectual domain, where they were way ahead of Western Europe and Scandinavia, e.g. Averroes.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning, Cafe. Coffee is on.
We just had rain yesterday. Nothing too bad. No flooding. No trees down. We fared much better than the coastal areas.
When Lee stalled over our area in 2011 we got a just over a foot of rain in one day. Worst flooding the area has ever seen. That is what flooded my former house 1 foot up into the main level in a single level ranch.

 

[Shadrach]

The lot above is a good demonstration of why I prefer science. Archeology is a not science.

 

[Shadrach]

Thanks for the coffee DL.
I had my second cup for the day at a nearby village.
Don't really know what's going on with the weather. It's warm with intermittent sunshine atm but there are plenty of clouds around.

 

[Perris]

Good morning Cafe.
Thanks for the coffee DL.

I have my first case of pasty butt: the 3 wk old CCL chick. I saw him shivering a few days ago, so I suppose the chilling caused it, because his siblings, who feathered up quicker, are not suffering it. Who'd have thought chilling would be an issue in late July/early August?!? I guess it shows how poor the weather has been here recently.