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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