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More specifically, a hybrid burial ground can be certified when it forbids embalming, prohibits toxic or non-degradable chemicals in the burial process, and mandates natural burial advertising. The second type, natural burial grounds, must fulfill the requirements of hybrid burial grounds as well as require "site planning" and a survey of the ...
The namesake cultural trait of the Mound Builders was the building of mounds and other earthworks. These burial and ceremonial structures were typically flat-topped pyramids or platform mounds, flat-topped or rounded cones, elongated ridges, and sometimes a variety of other forms. They were generally built as part of complex villages.
Location Date Culture Notes Cahokia Mound 72: Mound 72, Cahokia Collinsville, Illinois: 650 to 1400 CE Middle Mississippian culture: A ridge-top burial mound south of Monk's Mound; during excavations archaeologists found the remains of a man in his 40s who was probably an important Cahokian ruler. Archaeologists recovered more than 250 other ...
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Shrum Mound is a Native American burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park in Columbus, Ohio. [2] The mound was created around 2,000 years ago by the Pre-Columbian Native American Adena culture. [2] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [1]
Oct. 30—With more people concerned about reducing their environmental impact, funeral homes and cemeteries in New Hampshire are seeing a growing demand for "green" or natural burials. The Green ...
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον ' sleeping place ' ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally ...
Wesleyan Cemetery in Cincinnati, Hamilton County. Catherine Street Burying Ground in Cincinnati; Congress Green Cemetery in North Bend; Fulton-Presbyterian Cemetery in Cincinnati; NRHP-listed