The Celtiberians were a mix of Celtic and native Iberian cultures. This grave dates to the 3rd century BC and was found near Zaragoza. It's a cist marked by a stela and contains an iron sword with silver damascening, the remains of a baton, a spear, tweezers, and a razor. You have to look good in the afterlife! There was also a spindle whorl and a clay ball of uncertain use. A pot contained the warriors cremated remains.
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Odd to think one's remains might be on display one day, isn't it?
I want to be mummified so I can scare future generations of school-age museum goers.
Our remains could also end up in a mishmash of bones like in the Catacombs of Paris. This is much more elegant than that.
Will our cremated remains endure as they now are almost totally ash when someone is cremated. (is that the actual bones in that container or representative of the remains?)I know, morbid question. . .
D.G.: They look like actual bones to me, but without opening up the case and checking I can't be sure. There's a political storm in North America about archaeologists keeping bones of native Americans. That controversy doesn't exist over here. The lack of a genocide keeps temperatures cooler.
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