burial mound
collocation in Englishmeaningsofburialandmound
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burial
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈber.i.əl/us/ˈber.i.əl/
the act of putting a dead body into the ground, or the ceremony connected ...
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mound
noun[C]
uk/maʊnd/us/maʊnd/
a large pile of earth, stones, etc. like a ...
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(Definition ofburialandmoundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofburial mound
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In the mid-1950s attention shifted fromburialmoundresearch to large-scale settlement research.
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Around the middle of the 1950s however, with the end of the moorland reclamations, the importance ofburialmoundresearch declined.
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This includes the burial practices, which developed from theburialmoundritual.
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These changes in the original meaning of theburialmoundritual undermined it to such an extent that a transformation of the ritual became necessary.
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Which quantitative changes took place in theburialmoundtradition?
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This could mean that the original conventions inherent toburialmoundtraditions remained valid as a frame of ideological reference.
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Theburialmoundbecame the formal burial place for the household as the basic economic unit.
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These smaller groups utilised theburialmoundritual in the same way as the larger kinship groups had done earlier.
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The combined weight of the bronze grave goods seems to be unrelated to the dimensions of theburialmound.
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A third factor can be postulated, namely age, which influenced both the size of theburialmoundand the presence of grave goods.
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He witnesses a young woman fanning the grave of her husband; he had instructed her to find a new companion as soon as theburialmoundwas dry.
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Over time, however, changes occurred in parts of this tradition which imply underlying social changes and ultimately seem to undermine the original meaning of theburialmoundtradition.
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Post circles, in particular type 3, were constructed before the construction of theburialmoundand marked the area round a grave as part of the burial ritual (fig. 7).
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There is an observatory on the hill, and a bronze ageburialmound.
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There have been examples where it is thought that a mound could be an ancientburialmoundbut is later discovered to be full of nineteenth century bricks.
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The workers removed bones and other artifacts from thisburialmoundfurther desecrating this sacred site.
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The tumulus is an ovalburialmound80 metres long and 11 metres high, which houses two tombs.
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Theburialmoundis about high and in diameter.
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They left behind such evidences as aburialmoundand projectile points.
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After the examination of the grave, theburialmoundhas been reconstructed to its original height.
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