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 options:
- Mummify him - Ok for Egyptians and Incas
- Take him out of his grave, re-wrap him, etc
- Take him out of his grave, and decorate his remaining head bones
in some way

It's not surprising at all those different cultures had the same
practices.

best regards

Richard Parker
Siargao Island, Philippines

http://smallislandnotes.blogspot.com/
www.coconutstudio.com
http://austronesiancounting.wordpress.com/
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--- In austric@yahoogroups.com, TTT UUU <gymnogoy@...> wrote:
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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 Guinea. See another National Geographic
book...
>   1973. Primitive Worlds, People lost in time. page 43.
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> Robin Day Canada
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> --- On Mon, 8/4/08, Dac Regrt <pacificarchaeology@...> wrote:
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> 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
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> how can a custom from jerico go to an island?
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> --- On Thu, 7/31/08, TTT UUU <gymnogoy@yahoo. ca> wrote:
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> 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
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> Found two interesting items in an older book by National
Geographic:
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>  Shadbolt M. and O. Ruhen. 1969. Isles of the South Pacific. 212 p.
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>  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.
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> 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.
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