20th December 2005, 05:40 PM
objects can also be placed in a burial to dispose of them and whatever they stood for, see The Deposed Princess of Vix. You may not be honouring, commemorating, showing off etc etc, but getting rid of the person and the items that were specifically associated with them. Burying a person with their personal possessions may be a convenient way of trying to make people forget about them, and what they represented, rather quickly...
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++
++ i spend my days rummaging around in dead people ++