10th May 2005, 06:00 PM
Many thanks for the references peeps-keep it coming. One potential driver for the bias towards the deterioration of the ickle people in the buried environment is one of gut content at the point of deposition.We may assume that up until death, ickle people would have been fed regularly and in all probability, shortly before expiration. This would hold more so for children fed by the breast and may explain a generally unusual greater rate of decay for children against adult inhumations?-Invisible-twas Grete Lillehammer who presented "Five Infants in a Bog" at said conference...