The normal annual total of burials was in the range of thirty to thirty-five.
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In all of the clothing parishes there was a net surplus of baptisms over burials between about 1560 and 1600.
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Significantly, the rich burials included women as well as men.
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There is no easy correlation between areas with rich burials and those where historical sources note the presence of kings, magistrates or warlords.
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Why are the burials associated with the small rectangular cells, which are seen as storage spaces, and not with the supposed dwellings?
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They include registers of births, marriages and burials, and probate inventories.
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The reconstitution spans the years 1680-1829, and includes some 50,000 baptisms, burials and marriages, which have been linked to reconstitute some 8,700 families.
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In particular, very few adult ages are given during the 1730s and 1740s, in contrast to the burials of infants and children.
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Both cities saw huge population growth, and therefore had to make provision for an increased number of deaths and consequently burials.
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There is illuminating discussion of the cathedral cemetery (illustrated in both modern and sixteenthcentury plans), and the possible positioning of burials in it.
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The majority of the skull burials contain fewer than three objects, and only three of the 11 contexts contain obsidian.
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In this scenario, offerings associated with secondary burials may represent offerings made to a group of reinterred individuals.
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The secondary burials are accompanied by offerings, possibly made up of vessels exhumed from primary burials.
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Most burials included only three or four vessels.
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The vast majority of the burials these researchers analyzed are primary burials, and they occur below the concrete floors of residential compounds.
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ancient burial
The bones are of a young adult and are believed to be part of anancientburialsite.
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burial ceremony
Nowadays, it is usually possible to airlift the remains back to shore, and prepare aburialceremonyon land.
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burial chamber
Unlike its predecessor, however, this second tomb was equipped with a stairway that provided access to theburialchamberfrom inside the building above.
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