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Anthropology

ChazInAz

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3. Not alive.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:35 PM

Mar 2017

They would have been ritually killed during the funeral rites, to accompany and serve their human in the next life. Appalling to our modern sensibilities, but our ancestors were not known to have the BSPCA or a particularly humane attitude toward animals.

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