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Burial Practices – Prehistoric Reference library
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
...Practices – Prehistoric It is difficult to know when humans began to dispose purposefully of their dead, because the chances of archeologists discovering or recognizing the earliest such practices are slim indeed. However, in recent years, what appears to be the earliest known evidence for some kind of funerary ritual has come to light in northern Spain. The Sierra de Atapuerca, near Burgos, comprises a wide variety of early dwelling sites, dating back about a million years. Some 1600 feet inside the Cueva Mayor, an enormous cave, there is an...
Prehistoric mythology of the Paleolithic
Prehistoric mythology of the Neolithic
In the Beginning: The Earliest History Reference library
Michael D. Coogan
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...arm of the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aqaba/Eilat) and beyond to Arabia, ran the “King's Highway” ( Num. 20.17 ), the principal route for traders in incense and spices. To the east of the relatively level Transjordanian plateau is a region largely uninhabited since prehistoric times, the Syrian desert. Separating the eastern and western parts of the Fertile Crescent, the desert extends northward to the Euphrates and southward into the Arabian Peninsula, where its easternmost extremity is called the “Empty Quarter.” This desert, punctuated by only a...
Archaeology and the Bible Reference library
Oxford Bible Atlas (4 ed.)
...Tombs and burial practices Archaeology has revealed a great variety of types of burial, from simple interments or cave burials to elaborate tombs, with evidence from right across the historical and indeed prehistorical spectrum. The presence of various objects placed alongside the bodies suggests a belief in the necessity of making some sort of provision for the dead, though the extent to which such funerary goods provide evidence for a belief in an afterlife is uncertain. Burials from the...
1700 to the Present Reference library
Ronald Clements
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...physicist and Egyptologist who played a key role in deciphering the demotic text of the Rosetta Stone. Hulton Getty. More immediately pressing for biblical interpretation was the emerging awareness that the biblical evidence regarding the chronology of the prehistoric period of earth's existence posed difficulties. Isaac Newton had wrestled with the mathematical data, and Archbishop Ussher's contention that the original date of earth's creation was 4004 bce , with Jesus himself having been born in 4 bce , was increasingly cast into a...
fairy dart
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Samguk Sagi
Zaltys
ankou
Annals of Tigernach
Egyptian Creation
Eildon Hills
Sky god
Llyn Cerrig Bach
Gundestrup Cauldron
Hill of Allen
