0 past simple and past participle of cremate
1 to burn a dead person's body, usually as part of a funeral ceremony
Sometimes the cremated remains are placed in an urn, but more commonly they are scattered in a small pit or placed in an organic container.
The cremated bones were placed inside such ollas, which were placed around the walls of the chamber.
These gardens were designed not to accommodate full body burials, but to provide a place in which cremated remains could be strewn or interred.
In this chamber we found the cremated remains of one adolescent and one child, without any non-perishable tomb offerings.
The cremated remains were placed in large ollas, covered with a rounded sherd, and returned to be deposited within the interior of the tomb chamber.
The chamber floor is in the foreground, showing (nearest) an incised pottery cup, to the left (southeast) of which are cremated human remains.
A significant percentage of the increased number of central graves contain cremated persons.
The bodies of these individuals had been cremated.