burial mound
Earthen tomb heap
A burial mound is an artificial hill of earth or stones raised over a grave or graves.
Ancient cultures worldwide constructed burial mounds, from the barrows of Bronze Age Europe to the effigy mounds of North America.
Some contain elaborate chambers; others simply cover interred remains.
Archaeologists excavated the burial mound and found gold artifacts inside.
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- cairnMemorial stone pile
- passage gravePrehistoric corridor-accessed burial chamber
- royal tombBurial site for sovereigns
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- funeralsfuneral, cremation, casket, coffin, funeral homes
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- VikingsViking, longships, longship, raiding, Norse settlers
- burial sitesgrave, tomb, tombs, crypt, crypts
- cemeterygrave, headstone, headstones, graves, tombstone
- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone
burial moundburial pit
Hole for interring bodies
catacomb · crypt · burial cave · ossuary · vault
burial moundcremation
Burning the deceased
sky burial · sea burial · funeral pyre · cremation urn · mummification
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