Cremations, often in urns, became common in the Furchenstich and Baden context, bodies were also burned inside mortuary houses (Sachße, 2008). Barrows appeared first in the Baden culture, but were mainly linked with Corded Ware and the eastern Bell Beaker burials. Megalithic monuments need ...
Presence of grapes and hazelnuts in Roman cremations indicated continuity of local, Iron Age, traditions, to which offerings of other fruits, such as fig, date palm, olive, and pine nut became increasingly common. Another legacy of more ancient customs was indicated by isolated offerings of wild...
Acemetery, from the GreekCoemeterium(“resting” or “sleeping place”) (Lewis and Short, 1879) can be defined simply as a communal place where the remains of dead people are interred that are specific for that purpose. Other descriptive terms for cemeteries include graveyard, burial site and...
Cemeteries (either with cremations or inhumations) are yielding new results on the mobilities of individuals (Eckhardt et al., 2014), but also on community and family structures, rituals and caring and coping practices (van Andringa, 2012). Show moreView chapter Related terms: Archeology Sea ...
These objects were, in turn, associated with peoples thought to indicate an ethnic group (resulting from ethnogenesis) that could be defined and distinguished based on a standard pattern of funerary treatment, such as position of the body, mostly flexed or supine inhumations, or cremations, and...