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Tumulus inhumations continue, but with less use of ochre.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These include both cremation andinhumationburials; among the latter the head is to the north.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fordcroft was a mixedinhumationand cremation ceremony.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Polhill was aninhumation-only cemetery, with no evidence of cremation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Presence of females among the principal group in a multipleinhumationcauses us to believe that women had a preponderant role within the society.
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Replacement ofinhumationwith cremation might suggest stronger connections to spatially explicit resources.
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The variations and changes concern the specific grave goods and burial orientations, the peripheral structures and the choice between cremation andinhumation.
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Inhumationand cooking therefore both involve containing the animal within earth and surrounding it with water.
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The main group of deposits included seven cremations, but just beyond this group there were threeinhumationburials.
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The anomalous burials in terms of the schema suggested in figure 5 would be any cattle inhumations, and sheep cremations.
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Of the 15 cattle inhumations which could be aged, four were neo-natal, eight first-year, and four second-year animals.
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The presumption is that these would have included kinds whose life style would posthumously produce substantial carboninhumationand ensuing oil production.
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Bronze funerary goods have only been found ininhumationgraves.
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Sequentialinhumation, or repeated use of the same tomb for later burials, would imply social continuity and some kind of corporate basis to the shaft tombs.
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Bronze grave goods have been found exclusively ininhumationgraves.
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The choice between cremation andinhumationwas apparently made within a small social group, even a household, and therefore presumably within the same ideological framework or eschatology.
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