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Re: [austric] Ancestor Skull Veneration and Infant Head Binding

Hello Dac
Islands are not totally isolated.
Customs travel the globe with the dispersal of people and can be retained for ages. New Guinea etc. was not always an island but attached to Australia when sea level was much lower. Early man had boats or rafts to cross to Australasia. Humans (plus H. erectus) came out of Africa, across south Asia. Another example are the native people of the Americas who have some customs they must have brought with them from east Asia. One is the custom of seeing a rabbit pattern on the moon. This was shown to me by a Korean. Chiners have the same custom.
 
Anyway, sometimes nearly the same articles are invented in different parts of the globe, always a possiblity. I am reading an archaeology book now about Old Europe (Balkans, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia and Moldovia) by Marija Gimbutras (spelling? not sure) and  shown are fired clay stamps like those I have seen from coastal Ecuador (art different). Some of the oldest writing comes from this area of Europe, predating Sumeria by a 1000 yrs. This was new to me!
 
Robin Day Canada
 
 

--- On Mon, 8/4/08, Dac Regrt <pacificarchaeology@...> wrote:
From: Dac Regrt <pacificarchaeology@...>
Subject: Re: [austric] Ancestor Skull Veneration and Infant Head Binding
To: austric@yahoogroups.com
Received: Monday, August 4, 2008, 7:31 AM

how can a custom from jerico go to an island?

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, TTT UUU <gymnogoy@yahoo. ca> wrote:
From: TTT UUU <gymnogoy@yahoo. ca>
Subject: [austric] Ancestor Skull Veneration and Infant Head Binding
To: austric@yahoogroups .com
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 5:07 PM


Found two interesting items in an older book by National Geographic:

 Shadbolt M. and O. Ruhen. 1969. Isles of the South Pacific. 212 p.

 On p. 202 there is a human shull from the Sepik River New Guinea, with the flesh remodeled in clay and painted. The eyes are replaced by white cowrie shells. This same custom was practiced in Jerico, Israel, thousands of years ago. This custom may have been carried east in the stone age to the New Guinea region.

 
On p.199 a mother from the New Britian Islands, east of New Guinea, is photographed binding he head of an infant with bark cloth to elongate the skull. This custom was common in central and south America but I had not known it was practiced in the New Guinea region.

 

Robin Tim Day, Canada

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Found two interesting items in an older book by National Geographic:  Shadbolt M. and O. Ruhen. 1969. Isles of the South Pacific. 212 p.  On p. 202 there is... 		TTT UUU
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...   ... Artificial cranial deformation, a practice having a prehistoric origin, was once practised in all five continents. The great British anthropologist...
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Francesco On an earlier thread I posted.... I have been wondering if the South American drugs like cocaine and nicotene turning up in Africa (Egyptian...
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how can a custom from jerico go to an island? ... From: TTT UUU <gymnogoy@...> Subject: [austric] Ancestor Skull Veneration and Infant Head Binding To:...
Dac Regrt
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Hello Dac Islands are not totally isolated. Customs travel the globe with the dispersal of people and can be retained for ages. New Guinea etc. was not always...
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Regarding the saving of family skulls and fleshing them out with clay and paint. This custom is also practiced in the New Hebrides Islands well east of New...
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If you liked your grand-dad, then you might go a bit further than just drop him into a pit in the ground, and forget about him. But then, you've got very few...
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