Things to do with human bones in the Neolithic

Deflesh them with bone knives. Let the wolves and ravens deflesh them. Gather them into skin bags and bury them under the hearth. Feed them beer. Dig them up every fall and dance with them. Dig ditches around them so the uninitiated cannot get too close. Build mounds over them so the otherworld can ascend and be closer to us. Organize them by size and type. Rearrange them into new, mash-up ancestors. Break them so they will not follow us in our dreams. Suck out the marrow so their spirits will protect us in our dreams. Burn them and place them in jars of clay decorated with rows of pits, as from missing teeth. Erect stones around them in a circle so they will remember us who stand in the light.