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Examples of inhumation
inhumation
They contrast with Anglo-Saxon burials, which followed a different inhumation custom.
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Inhumation was in grave pits, with the deceased being covered in ochre.
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In Prussia both cremation and inhumation burials were found, which Germanic tribes practised.
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In the east there was a gradual transition among the pagan Saxons from cremation to inhumation.
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These are mostly cremations, with occasional inhumation.
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The people of the Wielbark culture used both inhumation and cremation techniques for burying their dead.
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In the Urnfield period, inhumation and burial in single graves prevails, though some barrows exist.
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In the early Iron Age, inhumation became the rule again.
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Inhumation under tumuli in the Liburnian territory was undoubtedly inherited from the earlier times.
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- Burial: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
- (inhumed) buried: placed in a grave; "the hastily buried corpses"
- Burial (as in berry, or), also called interment and inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.
- The act of burial
- (Inhumations) A term used to refer to human burials (as opposed to cremations).
- Burial of dead body (as opposed to exposure or cremation). Position may be extended, flexed or crouched, and prone, supine or on side
- (2) -- the practice of burying in the ground; interment of a body (Oxford Dict.)
- The placement of the dead in an excavated pit beneath ground surface (cf. burial sense 2).
- Deliberately buried human remains within a grave pit constructed specifically for the purpose.
