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  2. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    The earliest evidence of wooden coffin remains, dated at 5000 BC, was found in the Tomb 4 at Beishouling, Shaanxi. Clear evidence of a rectangular wooden coffin was found in Tomb 152 in an early Banpo site. The Banpo coffin belongs to a four-year-old girl; it measures 1.4 m (4.6 ft) by 0.55 m (1.8 ft) and 3–9 cm thick.

  3. Cooper (profession) - Wikipedia

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    Cooper readies or rounds off the end of a barrel using a cooper's hand adze Assembly of a barrel, called mise en rose' in French. A cooper is a craftsman who produces wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable.

  4. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    Solid wood and particle board (chipboard) coffins with hardwood veneers account for 10–15% of sales, and fibreglass and alternative materials such as woven fiber make up the rest. In Australia, 85–90% of coffins are solid wood and particle board. [citation needed] Most traditional caskets in the UK are made from chipboard covered in a thin ...

  5. Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions - Wikipedia

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    The company traces its roots back to 1890, when John Backman began making wooden caskets by hand. At the time, the Aurora Casket Company employed 20 people. In the 1920s, John's son William Backman and his son-in-law William Barrott joined the company. For decades, the company was controlled by the Backman and Barrott families.

  6. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin, or the passage of heavy ...

  7. Pope Francis refuses glitzy burial — opts for wooden casket ...

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    Pope Francis has opted to be buried in a wooden casket when he is laid to rest – amending a centuries-old tradition of a decorated send off as he works to simplify papal customs.

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