Burial

The Benefit of Organic Burial Pods Description of the problem: Traditional burials are becoming a problem because with the knowledge of perfected and modernized burials, we could save lives, improve our planet, and increase our life span here on earth. Money, values, and morals are the causes of this problem. People don 't have the resources to bury their dead the way they wish to and modernizing burials is quite expensive technology. Also, people around the world have different values and morals to bury their deceased and sudden change does not come easy. This problem has remained old fashioned and unsolved because it is tightly connected with people’s beliefs, emotions, family tension emerges, and religious conflicts arise. Moreover,…

Burial traditions vary across time and space. Looking at societies in similar stages of development, trends in how individuals of various statuses are buried become visible. In looking at a few of the Mississippian cultures and the famous tombs of King Tutankhamen and The Death Pit at Ur, one can explore how these trends and differences appear. Additionally, these case studies can be used to examine larger issues within the field of archeology -- such as looting and preservation -- and to…

would be impossible seeing that one object leads to another, which then correlates to my conclusions for every grave site. The most important grave site that allows all of my observations to be plausible is Burial 10. Because of Burial 10, I am able to determine the sex and status of each burial. Differentiating between age is a matter of skeleton size and its correlation with the type of artifact each are buried with. First of all, Burial 10 contains a wide coffin. Inside the coffin is a…

The average number of deaths per year in the United States is 2,468,435. (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm) (5) That many people are dying every year, how long until there is no more room to bury people? That is where the Natural Burial Movement comes into play not only solving that problem, but so many more. More land to choose from to be buried, less chemicals and even rebuilding the environment in more than one way. This movement is a solution to something frightening, our own death, but…

most common type of burial found during the Anglo Saxon period: chest burials (Atkins, 2012). Atkins specifically analyzes the chest burials structure of craftsmen wooden inclusion of metal hinged lid (2012). This specific paper focuses on the types of burial containers accompanied by the type of funeral practices and how each individual are entombed. It compares the different type of chest burial found and the technique used in creating it (Atkins, 2012). By analyzing the structures of the…

In the burial site at Marosszentanna, the bodies were laid out in perpendicular directions, approximately along a north-south axis, except for twelve graves that were aligned east-west. These graves contained no grave goods nor eating or drinking vessels. The hands of at least two of the corpses were also clasped in a Christian manner and have been dated as the most recent graves (Köpeczi et al.). This indicates the transition from non-Christian to Christian and the acceptance of such a…

knowledgeable staff at Larson Funeral Home in Bridgeport, Connecticut provide some advice for folks attending a burial service. What To Expect The burial service is the final step in the funeral process, though in some instances it may be the only service for the deceased person. The burial service most commonly consists of a few basic elements: placement of the casket or remains at the gravesite, a short message or reading by a pastor or spiritual leader, and then a conclusion with the…

The Lowdown on Burial Vault USA Laws If you are looking for a burial vault, you will come across different kinds of materials. In the older days, it is usually built out of brick or wood but nowadays, concrete is used to keep the casket well-contained. The modern types of burial vault USA made have different styles which are either lined with bronze, fiberglass, copper or steel. Some can be inscribed with words or images. A burial vault is a lined housing that encloses a casket. It prevents…

The African Burial Ground also known as the “Negroes Burial Ground,” is home to more than 400 plus remains of freed and enslaved African-Americans. In 1991, a building projected unearthed the remains of these Africans beneath a parking lot just two blocks north of New York’s City Hall, bringing the colonials city’s lost African Burial Ground to the attention of the World [1]. Once the site was discovered and announced to the public, African leaders made their presence known by bring the…

MISSISSIPPIAN BURIAL PRACTICES: Mississippian Burial Practices and How Various Society’s Burial Practices Differ and Relate At the first description of the Mississippian cultures, specifically the Cahokian, my interest with these people grew. In both lectures from this course and my world civilizations course, descriptions of these people varied in terms of focus, but nevertheless caught my attention. And while my experience with North American cultures has been limited up until now, I am…