ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



amples in Sicily (see p. 79). The custom was not 

 unknown in neolithic days, especially in Crete. It 

 is still occasionally practised on the island and on 

 the Greek mainland, where, after the dead have 

 lain a few years in hallowed soil, their bones are 

 dug up, roughly cleaned, and deposited in caves. 



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