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What does inhumation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of burial.
  2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
  3. (medicine) arenation
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Four animal bones were directly associated with the inhumation.
The most outstanding was in Barrow 1, a male inhumation accompanied by many artefacts, some of them from remote sources.
The custom of incineration gains ground in Europe until in the Bronze Age it is the rule and inhumation the exception.
Excavations in 1870 revealed a primary inhumation burial accompanied by a food vessel, a flint scraper, and a flint knife suggesting a date slightly later than the henges.
The trend from cremation to inhumation in burial practice may also be consciously copying the changing Roman fashion.
Instances show that the two rites of inhumation and cremation were practised side by side.

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