Posted on 03/23/2022 9:27:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Çatalhöyük reveals a complex funerary ritual in which human bones were dug up, circulated among the community, painted, and reburied. The coloring on exhumed bones has also been matched to paintings found on building walls.
Çatalhöyük is often referred to as the “oldest city in the world,” as it hosted upwards of 8,000 people at its peak. Çatalhöyük’s inhabitants lived in mudbrick houses, fashioned clothing from trees, wore human teeth as jewelry, and manufactured baskets, ropes, and mats.
Residents of the city also used colorful pigments for both decoration and burials, and often both inside the same structure.
Red ochre was the most common colorant, and it was found on the bones of adults (both sexes) and also on children. Bright red cinnabar was mainly found in association with males, while blue/green pigment was found in relation to females. These pigments were “either applied directly to the deceased or included in the grave as a burial association"...
The archaeologists also found that the number of burials in a building matched the number of layers of paintings on the building’s walls. “Walls in a house were painted when a burial was performed in the same building,”...pointing to a connection between the burial of an individual and the application of colors to that space.
[U]se of pigments dates back tens of thousands of years, and possibly hundreds of thousands of years. In the Middle East, the use of pigments in funerary practices dates to the 9th and 8th millennium BCE. As the authors of the new study point out, prior examinations of these practices were focused on the bones and ritualistic oddities such as the removal of skull prior to reburial, at the expense of linking these practices to context such as artworks and architecture.
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“Walls in a house were painted when a burial was performed in the same building,”...pointing to a connection between the burial of an individual and the application of colors to that space.
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Benjamin Moore Bone White PM-30
What is that on the RAL chart?
“What is that on the RAL chart?”
I very well know what a PMS chart is, but what is a RAL chart?
Why, o why am I questioning the importance of this thread? just sayin’
Th3y only did this as relaxation after a grueling year of fighting climate change, and prancing around in dresses pretending to be the opposite sex
Excitable Boys they all said.
We should do that with Hillary. Hopefully soon. Paint it in neon-glow-in-the-dark paint. Cool.
After ten long years, they let him out of the home
“Excitable boy,” they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
“Excitable boy,” they all said (Ooh-ooh, excitable boy)
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
Sounds like something the College Snowflakes and their illegal alien lawn boys would do.
The things a bored stoned teenager will do who knew that must be by why they call it the stone age.
Thanks BenLurkin. They also built shrines for human and animal skulls that were plastered over to resculpt facial features etc. No city streets, they walked across the roofs. The city was one big fort on the obsidian trade route.
Interesting hobby.
5.56mm
Trying to imagine a tree trunk jumpsuit. That's gotta itch.
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