 This cut @-@ marked human bone assemblage represented the largest yet identified from within a Neolithic long barrow in Southern Britain , although similar evidence for dismemberment has been found from a number of other Neolithic British sites , such as West Trump , Eyford , Aldestrop , and Haddenham . There are two possibilities for how this material developed . The first is that the bodies of the dead were excarnated or exposed to the elements , followed by a secondary burial within the tomb . The second is that they were placed in the tomb , where the flesh decomposed , before the bodies were then rearranged within the tomb itself . These practices may have been accompanied by necrophagy , shamanism , or magical practices , direct evidence for which does not survive . 
 This cut @-@ marked human bone assemblage represented the largest yet identified from within a Neolithic long barrow in Southern Britain , although similar evidence for dismemberment <a href='been_done' title='1'><mark>has</mark></a> been found from a number of other Neolithic British sites , such as West Trump , Eyford , Aldestrop , and Haddenham . <a href='dey_it' title='2'><mark>There</mark></a> are two possibilities for how this material developed . The first is that the bodies of the dead <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> excarnated or exposed to the elements , followed by a secondary burial within the tomb . The second is that they <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> placed in the tomb , where the flesh decomposed , before the bodies <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>were</mark></a> then rearranged within the tomb itself . These practices may <a href='been_done' title='6'><mark>have</mark></a> been accompanied by necrophagy , shamanism , or magical practices , direct evidence for which <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>does</mark></a> not survive . 
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