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    The secondary burial (German: Nachbestattung or Sekundärbestattung), or “double funeral” (not to be confused with double burial in which two bodies are...
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    Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects....
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    and rationales behind their jar burial practices. Cultural practices included primary versus secondary burial, burial offerings (bronze or iron tools...
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    this study suggested that Herxheim was a site for a type of burial known as secondary burial, which consists of the removal of the corpse or partial corpse...
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  • (particularly subclades of U2, U4 and U5). The burials at Zvejnieki include evidence for secondary burial: that people were intentionally using remains...
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    interpreted the stone jars as a central person's primary or secondary burial, surrounded by secondary burials of family members. Archaeological data collected during...
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    The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan...
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    Ossuary (category Burial monuments and structures)
    in burial caves, followed by secondary burials in ossuaries. These bone boxes were placed in smaller niches of the burial caves, on the benches used for...
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    Almost all burial chambers contain a platform for primary burial and an ossuary or other receptacle[dubious – discuss] for secondary burial. There is debate...
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    boundaries. At times, there was a secondary burial, possibly reserved for exceptional individuals. In the primary burial, the deceased were buried in a large...
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    categories also exist for log coffin burials. A primary burial is when the cadaver is completely disposed of. A secondary burial involves a corpse being removed...
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    in the cave there were repositories. The repositories were used for secondary burial, which means that the bones and other remains of the long deceased...
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    archaeologists have instead suggested that they represent evidence of secondary burial. The original excavators of the site, under the leadership of Paola...
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    The Maitum anthropomorphic burial jars are earthenware secondary burial vessels discovered in 1991 by the National Museum of the Philippines' archaeological...
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    Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
    stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central Asia) kurgans, and may be found throughout...
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    Heart-burial is a type of burial in which the heart is interred apart from the body. In medieval Europe heart-burial was fairly common among the higher...
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    have practiced secondary burial, when the deceased and associated grave goods were rearranged in the tomb to make room for new burials. Until about 1100...
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    evidence that they buried their dead in stone dolmens and also practised secondary burial. Settlements belonging to the Ghassulian culture have been identified...
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    were "burial caves", used in the Neolithic and Early Minoan periods as secondary burial sites for a community. It is thought that the primary burial site...
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    through the bones, making them one. Air burials (also known as tree burials) are a form of secondary burial, where a body is placed above ground either...
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  • cremation and secondary cremation are terms in archaeology for describing burials of cremated bodies. Primary cremation refers to burials where the body...
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    containing a skeleton, along with three horses. Polosmak believes that this secondary burial was that of an outside group, perhaps of subordinate peoples, who considered...
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    coffins and secondary burial in ossuaries. For primary burial, coffins were placed in kokhim. After a while, bones were collected for secondary burial in kokhim...
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    oblong-shaped pit with a concentration of human remains in the form of a secondary burial. The remains were found with five iron spearheads and a copper bracelet...
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    company Celestis has conducted numerous space burials flying as secondary payloads. The first space burial occurred in 1992 when the NASA Space Shuttle...
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    argued that the traces were caused by defleshing rituals preceding a secondary burial, but the fact that both humans and wild and domestic animals were processed...
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    Rodney Castleden argue that these bones were deposited as a 'secondary burial'. Secondary burial is the not-uncommon practice of burying the dead twice: immediately...
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    bodies had been dismembered before burial, potentially reflecting a funerary tradition of excarnation and secondary burial. As with other barrows, Coldrum...
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    Two kinds of burials are distinguished; a primary burial intended to transport the dead into the netherworld, and a secondary burial that was intended...
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  • BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a two-part single-player expansion to the first-person shooter video game BioShock Infinite. It was developed by Irrational...
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