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Mysterious Ceramic Urns Excavated in Amazon Rainforest
Archaeology Magazine ^ | July 1, 2025 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 07/07/2025 9:17:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

When a 50-foot Paricarana tree recently toppled in the Brazilian Amazon region of Fonte Boa, it revealed a collection of ceramic vessels buried by an unknown pre-Columbian culture centuries -- or even millennia -- ago. According to a Live Science report, archaeologists called to the site recovered seven vessels, two of which measured more than three feet in diameter, that they believe are funerary urns. Some contained human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs, and turtles that were likely part of a funerary ritual. The vases were found within an artificial earthen island that had been built to create dry community living space above the surrounding floodplain. The urns may have been deposited in the floor of a house, as was typically part of local funerary traditions. According to researchers, the deceased were typically left in a basket in the water until fish consumed the body's soft tissues. The skeletal remains were then cremated, placed in an urn, and buried beneath a house. To read about evidence of feasting recovered from mounds built more than 1,200 years ago on the coast of southern Brazil, go to " Something's Fishy."

(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; theamazon
An archaeologist excavates one of the ceramic urns at the site of Lago do Cochila in Fonte Boa, Brazil.
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1 posted on 07/07/2025 9:17:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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barely related:

2 posted on 07/07/2025 9:18:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Dear leftists, that victory was just the undercard. Time for the main event.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

3 posted on 07/07/2025 9:18:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Dear leftists, that victory was just the undercard. Time for the main event.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dinosaur eggs?


4 posted on 07/07/2025 9:19:30 PM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: Waverunner

Largest dinasaur eggs were 10”x12”
From Hypselosauras priscus


5 posted on 07/07/2025 9:29:58 PM PDT by Cold Heart (BP S GW)
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To: SunkenCiv
[D]eceased were typically left in a basket in the water until fish consumed the body's soft tissues. The skeletal remains were then cremated, placed in an urn, and buried beneath a house.

Charming.

6 posted on 07/07/2025 9:34:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s a form of excarnation, which is one of the three primary ways cultures handle their dead — the other two being inhumation and cremation.


7 posted on 07/07/2025 9:37:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Dear leftists, that victory was just the undercard. Time for the main event.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The fish probably appreciated it.


8 posted on 07/07/2025 9:41:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Cold Heart

Jeez....you’d think you’d know how to spell “dinosaur.”

Just kidding....


9 posted on 07/07/2025 9:45:11 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: gundog

What’s this about Dinah Shore’s eggs?


10 posted on 07/07/2025 9:50:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Waverunner

Perhaps.


11 posted on 07/07/2025 10:14:43 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Cold Heart

Oh sure...smarty pants 😂


12 posted on 07/07/2025 10:16:35 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Beowulf9
"What’s this about Dinah Shore’s eggs?"

ROFL!! Good one!!

13 posted on 07/07/2025 10:19:48 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Waverunner

That was my first thought, too.


14 posted on 07/07/2025 10:49:04 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Cold Heart

Largest found to date, Who knows what lurks deep in the Amazonian rainforest, under the Ice in Antarctica, or in the secret caves of the Himalayas?


15 posted on 07/07/2025 11:38:18 PM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: BenLurkin
This guy says, don't even need to be dead....

16 posted on 07/07/2025 11:40:32 PM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Actually, I’ve seen something similar to what she’s dusting off there. You really don’t want to get your face too close to it.


17 posted on 07/08/2025 2:43:49 AM PDT by noiseman (I The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

This is how they stored beer before someone invented beer bottles.


18 posted on 07/08/2025 5:31:32 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They invented Kimchee?


19 posted on 07/08/2025 5:45:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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