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Spooktober: Buried Alive?!?!?! - Ep 112

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For the final spooky episode of 2020, Amber and Anna take on the extremely frightening topic of live burials. We discuss the forensic evidence that indicates that a person might have been buried alive, talk about some archaeological contexts for live burials, and cover some real and probably-not-so-real accounts from history. This one's got some real ups and downs, so buckle up.

Links

  • The Live Burial: A multidisciplinary approach to the identification and exploration of live burials (via Academia.edu) (CN: graphic images of human remains)
  • The Bride escaping live burial in Kill Bill Vol 2 (YouTube)
  • Casts of Pompeii (Archaeology)
  • Plaster Citizens of Pompeii (Atlas Obscura)
  • Volcanic Ash (National Geographic)
  • EarthWord – Nuée Ardente (USGS)
  • Mount Vesuvius Boiled Its Victims’ Blood and Caused Their Skulls to Explode (Smithsonian) (CN: images of human remains)
  • Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines:Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice (BioMed Research International, via ResearchGate) (CN: images of human remains)
  • Violence in pre-Columbian Panama exaggerated, new study shows (Phys.org) (CN: images of human remains)
  • The History of Ancient Nubia (Oriental Institute)
  • Retainer Sacrifice in Egypt and in Nubia (The Strange World of Human Sacrifice)
  • Buried but Alive? Interpreting Post-depositional Bone Movement, Anxieties over Death and Premature Burial (Lund Archaeological Review)
  • Four People Who Were Buried Alive and How They Got Out (MentalFloss)
  • PICS: Remember the Mansfield man buried alive for five months (Chad.co.uk)
  • Esmeralda Lundius Staff Bio (Durham University)
  • The 'Pompeii' of the Western Front: Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell (Daily Mail)

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