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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Bag of skulls confirmed as human in China PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 09 April 2006
BEIJING, April 6 (UPI) -- Police in China's western Gansu province confirmed Wednesday that 121 skulls discovered in a plastic bag last month were human, state media reported.

The heads, discovered by a herdsman on March 26 in a remote mountainous area of Gansu's Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, had been hacked from the bodies, according to an unnamed source within the Ministry of Public Security quoted by Xinhua.

Officials in the provincial capital Lanzhou dispatched a forensics team including DNA specialists and anthropologists to investigate last Sunday after local authorities reported the skulls, in varying stages of decomposition, belonged to monkeys.

The bag contained both male and female heads of all ages, old and young, according Professor Chen Shixian from Lanzhou University, one of the experts brought in by police.

Chen dismissed rumors that the skulls had been dumped by hospitals after doctors removed the brains for medical research. He said the decapitations showed no sign of medical expertise. Investigators have not revealed the ethnicity of the dead.

One possible explanation for the mystery is the Tibetan practice known as "sky burial." Corpses are dismembered and put on raised wooden platforms for vultures to devour the flesh. The dried bones are either crushed or used for handicrafts.

United Press International has seen Tibetan goods made with human skulls sold in marketplaces ranging from Beijing to Lhasa, capital of Tibet.

http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060406-022048-3295r

 
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