The little foxes came out at eve to carry their bones away

[sovay]

Via cucumberseed: 16,500 years ago in Jordan, there were foxes buried in human graves. The authors of the original paper believe they might have been, if not precisely pets, then "potential domesticates . . . smaller and easier to control—although more skittish and timid—than the wolf. It seems likely that foxes could have shared a similar type of relationship with humans as wolves did, even if they were never truly domesticated." I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.

Comments

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

What a delicious idea.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.

If you can use it, I think you should. Also the title to this post is brilliant.

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Foxes? Every time I heard about foxes, I can only think of Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd and the swinging Festrunk brothers from Czechoslovakia.

Bring on the FOXES, because we are two WILD AND CRAZY GUYS!

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you know about this, but http://sibfox.com/

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

I like your interpretation better.

[larryhammer]

Well, that IS what it makes one think about ...

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I'm vaguely reminded of the custom of interring an animal in a house to protect it. Maybe it was something similar.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

O M G

I just love the part where the human appears to have been moved, and the fox with him/her, because the connection was considering so significant.

Going into a story so hard.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.

I don't know, archaeologists can be pretty eccentric, sometimes. Not that I recommend being one--it wasn't a pleasant job, in the end, although that may have been mostly because of the company I was working for.

I love this idea, in any event. If it inspires anything, I'd like to read the result.

[seajules]

It's common household myth that one of our pups is descended from foxes as much as from wolves; he looks singularly fox-like (he's a Sheltie whose ears never folded, though he's going on eight years old), and he has other foxish qualities.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

I will never make an archaeologist. I flashed on 'Uyun al-Hammam as a graveyard of kitsune: some buried in their human-shape, some in fox.

Perhaps you should try writing.