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Pre-Columbian Tribes Had BBQs, Parties on Grave Sites
National Geographic News ^ | Friday, December 5, 2008 | Alexis Okeowo

Posted on 12/05/2008 7:54:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Some pre-Hispanic cultures in South America had elaborate celebrations at their cemeteries, complete with feasting and drinking grounds much like modern barbecue pits, according to a new archaeological study. Excavations of 12th- and-13th-century burial mounds in the highlands of Brazil and Argentina revealed numerous earthen ovens. The finds suggest that the graves were also sites of regular festivals held to commemorate the death of the community's chief.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; argentina; barbecue; bbq; brazil; dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs
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Remnants of earthen ovens (above) indicate that some 12th- and 13th-century cultures in Argentina and Brazil built elaborate celebration sites at their cemeteries. Complete with feasting and drinking grounds similar to modern-day barbecue pits, the party sites imply that the Jê people had complex social and political structures, according to a December 2008 study. (Photograph by José Iriarte)
Pre-Columbian Tribes Had BBQs, Parties on Grave Sites

1 posted on 12/05/2008 7:54:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 12/05/2008 7:54:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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3 posted on 12/05/2008 7:54:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, October 11, 2008 !!!)
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To: SunkenCiv

You just can’t trust the hired help to keep the place clean before the next party.

I can’t decide if it’s the folks we hire, or the ones we invite. Which is it?


4 posted on 12/05/2008 8:00:57 PM PST by Monkey Face (I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: SunkenCiv
It is a little early in this depression to resort to long pig, but the great thing about living in a melting pot is the VARIETY that will be available. (Tex-Mex, Thai, Italian, Chinese, etc., etc.)

In the meantime we'll stick to the old stand-by:

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And last year we had a nice 8x10 of the decedent, on the table with him, like a wake.

5 posted on 12/05/2008 8:08:40 PM PST by bigheadfred (FREE Evan Vela)
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To: SunkenCiv; Monkey Face
Funeral Party


6 posted on 12/05/2008 8:15:00 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: SunkenCiv

This tradition goes on to this day. Go to any cemetary where alot of Latinos are buried and you will see mucho la familia hanging out.


7 posted on 12/05/2008 8:15:39 PM PST by Lou Budvis
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To: JoeProBono

Funeral “party?”

I be dancin’ on da grave!


8 posted on 12/05/2008 8:18:27 PM PST by Monkey Face (I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Monkey Face
Zatchu?


9 posted on 12/05/2008 8:26:00 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: JoeProBono

Yepper!
Fancy meeting you here!


10 posted on 12/05/2008 8:27:04 PM PST by Monkey Face (I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Lou Budvis

I went to a cemetary recently to check out the old tombstones, (kinda neat) and there were a bunch of Mexican’s ‘partying’ over there dead relatives grave. Kids running around, everyone laughing.


11 posted on 12/05/2008 8:31:21 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Monkey Face

12 posted on 12/05/2008 8:36:08 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: SunkenCiv

What was for dinner?

Or do I want to know?


13 posted on 12/05/2008 8:38:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: JoeProBono

*kof-kof*
Do I REALLY need a magnifying glass?...(she asks, coyly...)


14 posted on 12/05/2008 8:38:53 PM PST by Monkey Face (I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Monkey Face
"Do I REALLY need a magnifying glass?"

Can you read the small print?


15 posted on 12/05/2008 9:11:22 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: JoeProBono

*swoon*
*thunk*

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.

.

.*gasp*
:raises arm to forehead:
:whispers:
(Did someone say “chocolate?”)
(If i could just have a small taste...)


16 posted on 12/05/2008 9:17:20 PM PST by Monkey Face (I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: BenLurkin

Dessert was lady fingers...


17 posted on 12/05/2008 10:35:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Yup


18 posted on 12/05/2008 10:48:29 PM PST by JoeProBono ( Loose Associations - Postcards from My Mind)
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To: SunkenCiv

While stationed in Korea I observed the burial practice they used and it was the same inwhich you have describe in your article.

This was in 1965, have no idea if it has changed? Plenty of alcohol and food on and around the grave.


19 posted on 12/06/2008 4:46:50 AM PST by buck61
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To: buck61

Interesting.


20 posted on 12/06/2008 6:21:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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