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The first woodland burial ground in the UK was created in 1993 at Carlisle Cemetery and is called The Woodland Burial. [26] Nearly 300 dedicated natural burial grounds have been created in the UK. There is no legal requirements for using a coffin in the UK and a body can be buried in a cloth if desired. [27]
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 ...
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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 ...