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inhumation /ˌɪnhjʊˈmeɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun] chiefly Archaeology1The action or practice of burying the dead; the fact of being buried: cremation took over from inhumation as the dominant burial rite...- The trend from cremation to inhumation in burial practice may also be consciously copying the changing Roman fashion.
- In late Roman times there was an increased diversity in burial practice and examples of both cremation and inhumation are found.
- Also from the north came the use of cremation instead of inhumation, around 1200 BC.
1.1 [count noun] A burial or buried corpse: more than thirty human inhumations from various sites...- The 5th - 7th century cemetery at Lakenheath in Suffolk contained, in all, 437 burials (420 inhumations and 17 cremations), including 65 found this year.
- It was just fantastic to find this skeleton, an extended inhumation in this small area, which was well preserved, with personal grave goods, and radiocarbon dated to 5,500 years ago.
- They are almost all from early Bronze Age funerary contexts, mostly crouched inhumations; and where the sex of the deceased has been determined, it has been female in virtually every case.
Synonyms burial, burying, interment, committal, entombment, laying to rest, consignment to the grave rare sepulture, exequies corpse, body, dead body, cadaver, carcass, skeleton; remains, relics archaic corse |