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[Deleted]December 27, 2021

Interesting article.

The one next to it about the 8000 year old burial with a dog in it annoyed me. They always talk about “faithful hounds” with this sort of thing as if the dog chose it. Those poor animals were killed.

BraveAndStunningTERFDecember 28, 2021

They always talk about “faithful hounds” with this sort of thing as if the dog chose it. Those poor animals were killed.

It's interesting isnt it? It wades into a man's sense of ownership - They use to call mastery of nature. The perceived belief that they do and in their own divine right "own" living things, such as dogs and animals. With that comes there "god given right" to kill & eat.

Though I cannot really argue when the sacrifice of animals and people appears to have been very prevalent throughout known history. Still, worth a ponder.

[Deleted]December 28, 2021

Not just men’s graves, either. There was a dig in England on a Time Team episode where a woman - Roman era, iirc - had a little dog buried with her.

Then of course there are all the poor horses in tombs.

butchpleaseDecember 28, 2021

That's a gruesome part of burial history; however, there is much evidence that throughout many eras of prehistory graves weren't closed-off units, but frequently reopened to include more burial offerings, rearrange the bones, take out older objects, or include new burials next to the original one. So there's a likelihood that not all animal companions were sacrificed specifically for the owner's deaths.

[Deleted]December 28, 2021

I hope that’s the case.

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