0 the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected with this: --
We went back to Ireland for my uncle's burial.
1 the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony performed when this is done: --
[ C ] We went back to Minnesota for my uncle’s burial.
The vast majority of the burials these researchers analyzed are primary burials, and they occur below the concrete floors of residential compounds.
Most burials included only three or four vessels.
The secondary burials are accompanied by offerings, possibly made up of vessels exhumed from primary burials.
In this scenario, offerings associated with secondary burials may represent offerings made to a group of reinterred individuals.
The majority of the skull burials contain fewer than three objects, and only three of the 11 contexts contain obsidian.
There is illuminating discussion of the cathedral cemetery (illustrated in both modern and sixteenthcentury plans), and the possible positioning of burials in it.
Both cities saw huge population growth, and therefore had to make provision for an increased number of deaths and consequently burials.
In particular, very few adult ages are given during the 1730s and 1740s, in contrast to the burials of infants and children.
