About what is due to the Bodies of the Dead and of the Living (i.e. About Burying and Suicide)

In the most ancient times the bodies of the dead were exposed to the air by being thrown on the fields without any covering; also sick people were exposed on the fields and in the mountains, and were left there. If they died there, they had the fate just mentioned; but if they recovered, they returned to their dwellings.

Primitive burial-customs.