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Discovery News reports that Archeologists have unearthed two 8th-century skeletons in Ireland with evidence of zombie precautions that predate the emergence of zombie and vampire folklore:

“One of the men was between 40 and 60 years old, and the other was a young adult, probably between 20 and 30 years old. The two men were laid side by side and each had a baseball-sized rock shoved in his mouth. Zombie style hit.

‘One of them was lying with his head looking straight up. A large black stone had been deliberately thrust into his mouth,’ Chris Read, head of Applied Archaeology at IT Sligo, said.

‘The other had his head turned to the side and had an even larger stone wedged quite violently into his mouth so that his jaws were almost dislocated,’ he added.” Beware Zombie.

Is this Zombie discovery really news?
Ireland has Zombie banks.
Zombie Hotels await the unsuspecting visitor to Ireland.
Across the land of Ireland, whole estates are so infested with houses that were priced for another world, are known as Zombie estates. Impoverished Zombies are forced to live in the Zombie estates, told to keep quiet, not complain about the sub human conditions.
So it was not exactly breaking news that ancient Zombies have been discovered in Ireland.

We Irish have the Zombie DNA. Ireland is Zombie land
Our nation has been controlled by Zombies for centuries. The unspeakable living off the flesh of the living.
Recent years has seen a complete Zombie takeover, our leaders are all Zombies.
It was Irish Zombies that invited the Queen of England to lunch, she was eaten and is now also a Zombie.
Turned out Phil the Greek was already a Zombie, just so heavily sedated he appeared almost normal.
Kevin Atemyarse (Zombie), a hack working for one of the leading Irish newspapers (British Zombie plant), reported that half way through the feast, Phil the Greek woke up out of his sedation and went wild, screaming and crying in anger at the sight he saw before him.
Demanding his share - Phil was thrown over one of her legs, licking his Zombie lips Phil remarked 'it was more than 50 years since he last got a leg over'.

What's in your mouth, in your mouth, Zombie Zombie Zombie.
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Questions on Zombie discovery
How can they be certain this is a Zombie? Is it not possible that this was a exceptionally gullible Irish man who fell for the 'eat this rock sandwich, it sure tastes good' prank.
How do they know for sure he never had a thing for rocks, it could have been his pet rock.
There is always another possibilty.
Then again it was found in Ireland, so it probably really was a Zombie. It would be just our Irish luck and history, to have a wandering group of zombies to come over and out stay their welcome.

Archaeologists find 'zombie' graveyard in West of Ireland
By Tom Prendeville

Sunday September 25 2011

ArchAeologists have unearthed a 'zombie' graveyard in Co Roscommon dating from the 8th Century.

The gruesome discovery was made by a team from the Institute of Technology Sligo, which discovered that skeletons were interred with large rocks placed in their mouths to prevent them rising from the dead at a historic site overlooking Lough Key, Co Roscommon.

According to chief archaeologist Chris Read, who led the Royal Irish Academy-funded dig, 'deviant burial' took place in circumstances where the people feared that the deceased would rise from the grave and terrorise them.

'Deviant burials' are sometimes associated with demonic possession and the revenants (deceased) or the 'walking dead' often tended to be people who were outsiders in society.

In ancient Ireland the mouth was seen as the route by which the spirit entered and left the body; hence the reason for placing a large rock in the mouth. "Sometimes, the soul could come back to the body and reanimate it or else an evil spirit could enter the body through the mouth and bring it back to life.

"In this case, the stones in the mouth might have acted as a barrier to stop revenants from coming back from their graves," explained Mr Read.

One of the men was between 40 and 60 years old, and the other was a younger adult, probably between 20 and 30. The two men were laid side by side and each had a tennis-ball-sized rock shoved in his mouth.

Mr Read's discovery is to feature in a documentary to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel in early 2012.

- Tom Prendeville

More Zombies found in Ireland non news.
Archaeologists from the Institute of Technology in Sligo, Ireland and the University of St. Louis excavated, from 2005 to 2009, a burial site dating from the eighth through fifteenth centuries at Killeasheen, County Roscommon, Ireland. Recently they released some of their findings concerning the 137 skeletons so far excavated at the site, including two so-called "deviant burials" from the eighth century. The two adult males were found buried alongside each other but had apparently been interred at different times in unrelated incidents. Both skulls had large stones in their mouths, which appear to have been placed there deliberately at the time of burial (Discovery News, IT Sligo). Placement of heavy objects such as bricks or stones in the mouth is a well-documented burial treatment for those considered at risk of returning as hungry and dangerous undead, though until the latter part of the twentieth century, the evidence for the practice was written rather than archaeological (Discovery News, IT Sligo, National Geographic News).
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The younger of the two men "had an even larger stone wedged quite violently into his mouth so that his jaws were almost dislocated," according to Chris Read of IT Sligo. Such application of force seems indicative of strong emotion or motivation- fear, anger, or sheer grim determination. What could so strongly motivate someone to thrust a large stone into the mouth of a corpse with such force? Researchers have reason to believe the answer is self-defense. The two men may have been suspected of being revenants.
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By Rossella Lorenzi
updated 9/16/2011 12:18:07 PM ET

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Two early medieval skeletons were unearthed recently in Ireland with large stones wedged into their mouths — evidence, archaeologists say, that it was feared the individuals would rise from their graves like zombies.

The skeletons, which were featured in a British documentary last week, emerged during a series of digs carried out between 2005 and 2009 at Kilteasheen, near Loch Key in Ireland, by a team of archaeologists led by Chris Read from the Institute of Technology in Sligo, Ireland and Thomas Finan from the University of St. Louis.

The project recovered a total of 137 skeletons, although archaeologists believe that some 3,000 skeletons spanning from 700 to 1400 are still buried at the site.

The "deviant burials" were comprised of two men who were buried there at different times in the 700s.

One of the men was between 40 and 60 years old, and the other was a young adult, probably between 20 and 30 years old. The two men were laid side by side and each had a baseball-size rock shoved in his mouth.

"One of them was lying with his head looking straight up. A large black stone had been deliberately thrust into his mouth," Chris Read, head of Applied Archaeology at IT Sligo, said.

"The other had his head turned to the side and had an even larger stone wedged quite violently into his mouth so that his jaws were almost dislocated," he added.

Initially, Read and colleagues thought they had found a Black Death-related burial ground. Remains of individuals buried at the end of the Middle Ages with stones stuck in their mouths have hinted at vampire-slaying rituals.

It was believed that these "vampire" individuals spread the plague by chewing on their shrouds after dying. In a time before germ theory, the stone in the mouth was then used as a disease-blocking trick.

Since the vampire phenomenon didn't emerge in European folklore until the 1500's, the archaeologists ruled out this theory for the 8th-century skeletons.

"In this case, the stones in the mouth might have acted as a barrier to stop revenants from coming back from their graves," Read told Discovery News.

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Revenants, or the "walking dead," tended to be people who lived as outsiders in society, according to Read.

The two Irish men could have been considered potentially dangerous people, such as enemies, murderers or rapists, or they could have been ordinary individuals who died suddenly from a strange illness or murder.

Anything outside the norm would have caused the community to fear that these people could have come back to life to harass their loved ones or others against whom they had a grudge.

The mouth was seen as a key part of the body for such a transformation.

"It was viewed as the main portal for the soul to leave the body upon death. Sometimes, the soul could come back to the body and re-animate it or else an evil spirit could enter the body through the mouth and bring it back to life," Read said.

According to Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, the burials' dating is particularly interesting as it appears to predate historical records on revenants.

"I'm also intrigued by the fact that the two males were not buried at the same time but were nonetheless buried side-by-side in this non-traditional manner, which suggests these burials were not accidental or careless," Killgrove told Discovery News.
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