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These different locations had different methods, accoutrements, and rationales behind their jar burial practices. Cultural practices included primary [ 3 ] [ 4 ] versus secondary burial , [ 5 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] burial offerings (bronze or iron tools and weapons; bronze, silver, or gold ornaments; wood, stone, clay, glass, paste) in or around burials ...
Colani also recorded and excavated at twelve Plain of Jars sites and published two volumes with her findings in 1935. Colani concluded that the Plain of Jars was an Iron Age burial site. Inside the jars she found, embedded in black organic soil, coloured glass beads and burnt teeth and bone fragments, sometimes from more than one individual ...
Most of the jars were Maenam Noi jars, but there were Angkorian jars as well. Additional ceramics from Thailand were also found at the site. [6] There was a massive amount of beads found at this site. [1] In 25 out of the 40 burial jars found, 1,332 glass beads were found. In the area surrounding the jars, 82 glass beads were also found.
The Ankokuji Burial Jar Cluster is located on the south bank of the Chikugo River, approximately 2 kilometers north of Mount Kora, in an area where the Chikugo River, which flows through the Chikugo Plain, passes the foot of Mt. Kora and changes its flow from west to south. The necropolis was discovered in 1978 during an urban planning project.
Located in Sindh, Pakistan, on the banks of the Indus River. With no citadel, it is merely an Indus site. Excavated items include bronze statues of bullock carts and ekkas as well as a small jar that appears to be a kink well. Bead making factory, dockyard, button seal, fire altars, painted jar, earliest cultivation of rice (1800 BC) Manda, Jammu
The discovery supports the hypothesis that Queen Meret-Neith was ancient Egypt’s first female pharaoh.
Here are the burial locations of some of the most infamous American outlaws and gangsters so you can create your own macabre cemetery tour. Wikimedia Commons. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson.
Detail on a jar cover molded into a human head. Even though the burial jars are similar to that of the pottery found in Kulaman Plateau, Southern Mindanao and many more excavation sites here in the Philippines, what makes the Maitum jars uniquely different is how the anthropomorphic features depict “specific dead persons whose remains they guard”.