I don't know what the big deal is ;300 bodies in North Georgia;
according to the Park history tour the peoples who inhabited Mesa Verde for a
millennium or so rolled their dead intar and turkey feathers and  pushed them
out the front door  to the gully below
On  a  jaunt through Portugal  I visited  the Templar Castle of Tomar; if
memory serves me well  there is a chapel there in the crypt made of the bones
of the deceased monks; the entrance arch was all sculls..which matched the
Lime mortar
however they needed cleaning....gommage perhaps...
In many cultures over the centuries the ashes of the dead
( and in many cases the dead themselves) were buried in walls.
While working on St. John the Divne one of the carvers died and part of his
ashes were set into the wall ; in fact many of us masons working there fully
expected to be buried "in the wall" as the project was to have gone well
beyond our lifetime.
Last summer I helped bury an 85 yr old friend  in his beloved garden; we
should all be so lucky...Best Michael.

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