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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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over a span of many thousands of years, beginning in the Late Archaic period and continuing through the Woodland period up to the time of European contact.
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 ...
The Seminole Tribe of Florida says it has questions.
At approximately 111 feet (34 m) into the mound a burial chamber was discovered, [10] dug into the original ground surface. The burial chamber was reported to have been a cuboid measuring 8 feet (2.4 m) by 12 feet (3.7 m) aligned north-south and dug 7–8 ft into the natural ground surface.
A maeotae skeleton of the burial ground near Farm of Lenin's Name, Krasnodar region, Russia 4th to 2nd century BC. Alemannic grave fields, dating from the 5th to 8th century. Before the middle of the 5th century, these grave fields were relatively small, often containing fewer than five graves, probably corresponding to a single homestead or ...
Burial in Anglo-Saxon England refers to the grave and burial customs followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the mid 5th and 11th centuries CE in Early Mediaeval England. The variation of the practice performed by the Anglo-Saxon peoples during this period, [ 1 ] included the use of both cremation and inhumation .