burial mounds
Earthen tomb markers
Burial mounds are artificial hills of earth or stone constructed over graves, found across many cultures and time periods.
They range from small individual graves to massive monuments covering royal tombs.
The practice spans from prehistoric barrows in Europe to Native American earthworks to Viking ship burials.
Archaeologists excavated the burial mounds to study ancient funerary practices.
- tumuliAncient burial mounds
- tombsChambers for the dead
- earthworksConstructed soil fortifications
- ossuariesReceptacles for skeletal remains
- Hallstatt cultureEarly Iron Age civilization
Iron Age · sepulchre · pottery shards · grave goods · funeral rites · cairn · funerary · interment · bog bodies · dolmens · grave · pyramids · necropolis · sacred ground · excavation · offerings · hillside · bronze age
- Baltic paganismMara, thunder god, sun goddess, earth goddess, world tree
- Nordic archaeologyViking artifacts, runestones, bog bodies, grave goods, rune stones
- Polish prehistoryBronze Age, Iron Age, flint tools, bronze tools, urns
- Viking ArchaeologyOseberg ship, runestones, Viking ships, longhouses, Borg
- funeral customsfuneral, cremation, funeral procession, casket, mourning
- funeralsfuneral, cremation, casket, coffin, funeral homes
burial moundsunmarked graves
Burial sites without identification
mass graves · potter's fields · potter's field · sea burials
burial moundscremation
Burning the deceased
sky burial · sea burial · cremation urns · scattering ashes · funeral pyres
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