article_snippet: Experts say that many of the stalactites in the cave resemble bones themselves and the floor of the Scaloria Cave is littered with long, thin broken stalactites.
article_snippet: If we suppose that stalactites were understood as equivalent to bones on a stone-like plane of existence, then cleaning bones and returning bones to the Scaloria Cave may have been understood as returning bones to an eternal place where bones came into being, the conclusion of a cycle of temporal incarnation. '
article_snippet: Conversely, the water that formed bones in the cave (stalactites) and hence bones in the living may have been understood as spiritually powerful or nourishing.'
article_snippet: There Neolithic people placed pottery vessels where dripping water from the stalactites collected.
article_snippet: The delicate stalactites in the Scaloria Cave (left ) resemble bones as can be seen in the image on the right where a collection of bones recovered from the cave and stalactite fragments found among bones on the cave floor .
article_snippet: Archaeologists found more than 40 pots encrusted into The delicate stalactites in the cave (left ).