burial pits
Excavated interment sites
Burial pits are excavated holes in the ground used to inter human remains, typically multiple bodies.
The term often appears in archaeological contexts describing ancient graves, or in darker modern usage referring to mass graves from atrocities: Investigators discovered burial pits containing dozens of victims.
Unlike formal cemeteries, burial pits suggest hasty, unmarked, or clandestine disposal.
- gravesBurial sites
- mass graveShared burial for many
- mass gravesShared burial for many
- unmarked gravesBurial sites without identification
- excavationAct of unearthing
bones · human remains · remains · trenches · killing fields · archaeology · corpses · body bags · genocide · war crimes · skulls · unearthed · shallow · digging · forensic · crime scene · wartime · massacre
- Black Deathbubonic plague, Black Death, plague doctors, buboes, Yersinia pestis
- burial archaeologyburials, graves, tombs, skeletal remains, bones
- Chinese tombsmausoleum, royal tombs
- Cambodia HistoryCambodia, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Phnom Penh, killing fields
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Monumental building for interment
pyramid · royal tomb · tomb · sarcophagus · Taj Mahal
burial pitssky burial
Tibetan aerial interment practice
mummification · cremation · funeral pyre · lying in state · embalming
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