grave goods

collocation in English

meanings of grave

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grave
noun[ C ]
a place in the ground where a dead person ...
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Examples of grave goods

grave goods
Burying women, as well as men, with expensive rituals and gravegoods allows a family to bury more often, increasing the occasions for display.
It seems, however, that the bodies were not placed in the most significant architectural space, nor are the clay 'monsters' mere gravegoods.
The simplest explanation for the association is that these bones belonged to parts of deer carcasses deposited with the burial as gravegoods.
Its importance lies in the presence of modest gravegoods (household items) and individuals with body ornaments.
Some of the children were accompanied by gravegoods, whereas others were not.
The gravegoods were personal equipment and probably especially emphasized the concept of the ideal male.
Together with the gravegoods, these allow us to make certain inferences about the burial position of males and females.
However, most of the offerings and gravegoods also belong to this category.
On the basis of the gravegoods, the number of men's graves outnumbered those of women.
The variations and changes concern the specific gravegoods and burial orientations, the peripheral structures and the choice between cremation and inhumation.
Conventional male or female symbolism, expressed both in gravegoods and the position of the skeleton, was less adhered to.
These objects are either new items or gravegoods exhumed from primary burial contexts.
My guess is that alliance formation at that time obtains a different meaning which is expressed in the jewellery buried with women as gravegoods.
For the period concerned it can be assumed that imported items were used as gravegoods of a special status or quality.
The increase of gravegoods in secondary interments is new.
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