Concurrently with this change the practice of inhumation becomes fairly general.
It has been sometimes objected that the introduction of inhumation must connote the first arrival of the Etruscan people in these regions, on the ground that they did not practise incineration; but this idea rests on no sound basis.
Chapter 43 The Art of Inhumation ABOUT the same time, I encountered a man in the street, whom I had not seen for six or seven years; and something like this talk followed.
On the basis of eight burials, all in poor condition, two modes of interment were recognized: primary inhumationand reburial.
Position of mandible and maxilla among the leg bones suggests either a former disturbance of a primary inhumation or a secondary burial.
Inhumation seems to have been more common than cremation in prehistoric Rome; hence, certain families, to give material evidence of their ancient lineage, would never submit to cremation.
Their inhumation beneath the soil, as well as the frequent occurrence of numbers together, point them out as the common and undistinguished graves of the builders of the tumuli.
This guarantee having been obtained, the inhumation of the deceased is enforced by law within two or three days of the death.
Notwithstanding this precaution, cases have occurred, even during the last few years, which appear to prove that inhumation has taken place before life was quite extinct.
The ancients both burned and buried their dead, but inhumation appears to have been the most early and the most approved rite.
Lycurgus was perhaps the only Grecian legislator who recommended inhumation in temples and in cities, to accustom youth to the daily spectacle of death.
It is to be feared that this melancholy occurrence is more frequent than is supposed, more especially in countries where inhumation is speedily resorted to.
According to the law of the Jews, who appear to have been in constant dread of pestilential disease, the inhumation of the dead were most hasty.
The ancients held hasty inhumation in great dread, and grounded their apprehension on various current traditions.
Both inhumation and cremation were practised in heathen times.
Incineration or cremation had been originally practised by a people physically distinct from that among whom inhumation prevailed.
The vessels were not to any extent cinerary, and probably not even mortuary in the sense of having been constructed especially for inhumation with the dead.
In other sections of the country the pieces of pottery are said to have been broken before final inhumationtook place, but such was certainly not the practice in this province.
The Mexicans, in cases where burial by inhumation was practised, placed their dead in a sitting position: so too did the Central Americans and Peruvians, as is sufficiently evidenced by an examination of their tombs.
We may thus account for the presence or absence of the charcoal layers, and also for the practice of incremation in some instances and simple inhumation in others.
It is melancholy to peruse these strivings after the impossible, and to see what fond but unavailing attempts have been made to rob inhumation of its terrors.
A system of inhumation analogous to that practised when stone-coffins were in use is now agitating in Germany.
It is certain that cremation and urn burial of the ashes prevailed in Britain during the Age of Bronze, and co-existed with inhumation in the great cemetery of Hallstatt, surviving into the Age of Iron.
The cause of the marked change from Mycenaean inhumation to Homeric cremation is matter of conjecture.
A grave would in many cases be dug sufficiently long to contain the body if buried by inhumation in a crouching position.
He soon found that securing the substitute and securing the body of O'Iwa San for proper inhumation were kindred problems.
Recitation of the sutra for seven continuous days; proper inhumation of the substitute beyond possibility of disturbance, would surely lay a spell on the enraged lady, and put an end to the curse of one dying an unworshipped spirit.
In Britain, the burials were at times by inhumation only, and occasionally a great number of bodies were interred in the same barrow: at others, cremation had preceded burial.
At Sparta, inhumation was probably the prevailing custom, since we know that Lycurgus ordered the corpses to be buried in the city, that the people might become habituated to the sight of death[173].
Skeletons are sometimes found, in tolerably perfect condition, after an inhumation of two hundred years.
It was upon such occasions as these, in which an empty form was observed, and no actual inhumation took place, that the practice of throwing three handsful of earth originated.
Lastly, to conclude this gloomy catalogue, excavations in the mounds of Ohio and Illinois[315] have shown that there too cremation and inhumation are met with in sepulchres which everything tends to assign to the same race and the same period.
The celebrated excavations of Moreau prove that inhumation and incineration were both practised among the Gallo-Romans established in the eastern provinces of France.
At Felsina and at Marzabotto we find instances alike of inhumation and cremation, and at Vilanova only half the tombs are those of corpses that had been cremated.
In one hundred and forty-five megalithic monuments supposed to date from the Neolithic period, seventy-two give proof of incineration and twenty of inhumation only.
In many of the Long Barrows of England the bones appear to have been flung in pell-mell; the space was too narrow to hold the complete body, so that before inhumation the flesh must have been separated from the bones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhumation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burial; funeral; interment
