Second, the animal bones indicate that the burial was accompanied by a sacrifice.
Feasting, particularly on pork, is attested by excavated remains of animal bones.
But even animal bones are an important source of scarce calcium for ravens and lemmings and foxes and, well, the entire food chain, because the Arctic recycles everything.
Their rumored remains now rest under Westminster Abbey, and a survey of the remains in 1933 found two youth's partial skeletons with a random mix of animal bones.
Various animal bones were also discovered scattered across a field.
In 1940, three years after her disappearance, the historic aircraft group's website states, a British official "found a partial skeleton of a castaway on a remote part of the island, " along with evidence of a "campfire, animal bones, a box that had once contained a sextant" and remnants of a man's and a woman's shoes.
Archaeologists have unearthed Neanderthal graves containing weapons, tools and the bones of a sacrificed animal, all of which suggest some kind of belief in a future world that was similar to their own.
Just as DARPA and other humanoid robot developers have drawn on biology for design inspiration, the agency hopes that robotic actuation can approach the efficiency of human and animal actuation where muscles, tendons, and bones cooperate in highly efficient ways.
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She found rodent bones and a bell from another animal's collar. (Not that unusual, says Thomas Carroll, the crematory operator she'd used, who says dogs eat the darnedest things.) Dornan, outraged, hooked up with Remkus, and they petitioned lawmakers to take action.
Powerful men use shaken bones or ground-up herbs or sacrifice an animal to bring luck.
But they can be matched with a general sort of animal, and thus act as an indicator of the fate of that group, even when there are no bones to tell the story.
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