These gardens were designed not to accommodate full body burials, but to provide a place in which cremated remains could be strewn or interred.
The chamber floor is in the foreground, showing (nearest) an incised pottery cup, to the left (southeast) of which are cremated human remains.
The bodies of these individuals had been cremated.
Because the remains were cremated and because the urns and the monument lack hieroglyphs, it is difficult to know who the two personages were.
Evident importance was placed on returning the cremated bone fragments to the chambers inside the ollas.
During this period, between one third and one half of the skeleton remains in central graves were cremated.
Inside, we found the jumbled cremated remains of at least three adults, one sub-adult, and two infants.
It protects the life of every individual by ensuring that nobody can be buried or cremated without a valid death certificate which attests to the cause of death.
