Re: Very true . . .
<But I wonder how easy it is to determine really how recent the burials happened in an desert environment. I would think that the dry conditions would serve to preserve the bodies so it wouldn't surprise me that they were finding bodies with flesh still attached...Even if they were buried years ago.
Requiring deep forensics for parasites in the immediate environment, looking into the establishment, formation, and complexity of colonies, likely requiring test-bodies of animals buried in the same region to verify.
But the assumptions are so much more fun,
Dan