They're in the walls: With this new find of a skull deposited inside a niche in a special building at #Sefertepe in SE #Türkiye's Urfa region, the pattern of Pre-Pottery #Neolithic mortuary ritual thickens, including #excarnation and #exhibition of the dead.
CW: Images of human remains.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/new-findings-sefertepe-55036
#Excarnation = the practice of removing the flesh and organs of the dead
...according to #Wikipedia.
Among such traces are, for instance, #CutMarks on human bones - whose origin and meaning, admittedly, could have a variety of possible reasons ... of which the removal of flesh (physical "#excarnation") *might* be one.
This rather recent study on skull fragments from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of #GöbekliTepe may illustrate that point:
Jens Notroff
Dailingual