I have found a few toad anomalies burials in Cozumel and Cuello in
Mayan context, and am looking further into it. Check out the
Weissbrod and Bar-Oz article called Caprines and toads: taphonomic
patterning of animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age
burial assemblage, published in Behaviour Behind Bones. The
conclusion indicates food offerings in a sealed burial, found in
jars. The cranial elements were missing, which may indicate food
offerings due to the process of removing the skull when peeling
back the skin (based on a Native American recipe!). Other sources
discuss ritual use of hallucinogenic toads (bufo marinus).
I would be interested in any further analysis.
Deborah Andrews
University of Florida
Graduate Student
Department of Anthropology
On Wed Nov 17 08:50:07 EST 2010,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_K=FCchelmann?= <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to know if anybody knows of comparable finds to a
> peculiar find situation from Xanten, Lower Rhine, Germany.
>
> In a Merovingian grave (early 7th century AD) within the dome of
> Xanten six amphian mummies have been found in 1956. They were
> placed together in a bowl. According to the other grave goods
> (beads, glas vessels, a gold fibula) it was probably the grave
> of a female, but there are no skeletal remains left for
> anthropological analysis. An intrusion of hibernating amphibians
> seems nearly impossible as the grave was made from tight closed
> stone slabs and it was found intact let alone the find situation
> in a bowl. The species of the amphibians has not been identified
> yet. They are belonging to the order Anura, but it is not clear
> yet if they are frogs or toads.
>
> Any comment welcome.
>
> Best
>
> Christian
>
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