Animal graves: dog, horse and bear

Abstract in Undetermined he atJthor dlscusses the relalionship betwccn peaplc and animals in a lime perspective of millcllnia. The starting point is the pre-Chri stian. $can­ dinavl:m. animal graves ofJogs and hoJ'SCs. the Saami hear-graves, as wdl as animal burials urmodern time. TIle occurrence ofanimal graves In pre­ Christian time and the wide mnge ofways to dispose of human and animal bodics complica!c our understanding of the com;cpt of a grave The rclatlonshJp between people and anima15 is complcx. The animal burials rene\:l the cx isltllccofa longstanding and very close bond hc::tW(."Cll pcoplc and ;;ammats, wbleb is based on emotion, prestige and rhe tIIualising ofIl dynamit nahm:. II seems that peoplc posItion themseh~ in t!leir SUf­ roundmgs with a kind ofmentality th~t has a long lime span. This gives unexpc(;led vicws of lhe eulrunll inheritance, of the idea ofpcoplc as Ihe crown ofcreation, and ofthe way in which the maUllhreads are interwoven in ourcultural history