The Premature Burial

Rejecting Tradition: A Funeral Plan for Rebecca James It is unfortunate that society seems to give far less consideration to planning for death than is given to planning the other major events in life like birth or marriage. As death is our final chance to speak to those we love, and given that we are unable to predict when it will happen; it is advisable to consider funeral planning early, and communicate and record these desires to eliminate confusion when the need for them arises. This…

archaeological excavations started to be performed in burial mounds D and E at the Kolomoki site, but mound E had the most pottery located in it (Sears 1953). The pottery found in the mounds included effigy figurines of humans, panthers, fishes, deer, and various birds which was very unusual for archaeologists because they did not think that the Swift Creek culture were able to mold pottery into these 3-D vessels (Pluckhahn 2007). Mound E Mound E was a huge burial mound where the Swift Creek…

graveyard that will serve as a final resting place, or in a longhouse where the grieving family lives. Afterwards, the now dry bones of the decayed corpse are ritualistically cleaned by close kin, and the body is then laid to rest in a form of “second burial” within a valuable jar, or coffin, inside of the family mausoleum.…

Have you ever been to a funeral, and noticed that the body is looking young as if nothing had happened? According to Jessica Milford’s essay, it may be because the funerals are being over done by, dressing up in nice clothes and make up. In Jessica Milford’s essay she gives her opinion on what she thinks of it in America. With her opinion we will compare how the traditions relate and differ from funeral rituals in India. According to Jessica Mitford’s “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” she…

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 skeleton with its head pointing…

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…

her son Eusebee. They donated the property in 1859 to the Roman Catholic Church for the establishment of church and graveyard. Pere Dénécé had a chapel constructed on the grounds in 1866. The earliest burials, between 1860 and 1863, are of the step and platform type tombs. A number of in-ground burials have become lost in time, and early cast iron…

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 helps create peace by allowing uninhabited bodies to serve a purpose. The Natural Burial Movement not only goes back to the conventional ways of how people…

understanding of Islam and Muslims in the medieval world, by first examining the requirements of Islam and Muslim customary practices, and then evaluating three sources through which they may be manifest in material remains. Archaeological evidence of Muslim burial customs, religious pilgrimage (hajj), and the urban organization of an Islamic city are all ubiquitously indicative of a Muslim cultural framework established by Prophet Muhammad. Muslims adhere to Islam through requirements…

One way to look at the role of birds in Dongson is to look again at the funeral rites of the Toraja. In Crystal’s article, he mentions that on the day of the Toraja burial, a chicken is set to run free to symbolize the freeing of the soul of the deceased. It is indeed possible that the Dongson saw birds in the same light as the Toraja. If so, it then implies that the Dongson people believed that birds, not feathered…