burial

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Burying, cremating and preserving bodies
bier
burial
bury
cist
committal
cremains
cremate
cremation
cryogenic
embalmer
exhume
lay
mummy
reburial
rebury
reinter
reinterment
sarcophagus
taxidermist
unburied

Examples of interment

interment
The north chamber's interments are accompanied by a greater number of ceramic offerings (75 vessels) and nonceramic sumptuary offerings than the south chamber.
The original context of this interment was probably lost at the time the foundations were dismantled.
This metal has been associated with interment since ancient times and used for coffins and coffin linings.
In contrast, the other interments contained two or fewer shell beads, and none of the individuals was interred with a pottery vessel.
These tombs seem to represent different possibilities of interment for different lineages in a rank society.
The desire for nocturnal interments indicated a break from the idea that funerals should be used as the expressions of communal values and unity.
The cotton textile appears to be in addition to and overlaying the agave fiber textiles and adornments that covered the interments.
Of the 37 limestone bars, eight were located in five different interments; in one interment, limestone bars and spindle whorls co-occur.
Samples were also obtained from alongside and between individuals, where fibrous material was detected during removal of the interments.
Certainly, the more "processing" that is involved in mortuary ritual, the "drier" the ultimate interment.
More than half of these decedents-27-are secondary interments, which means that 84% of the secondary individuals are part of multiple burials.
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