reburial
Interment done again
Reburial is the act of burying a body or remains again after exhumation.
This occurs when remains are moved to a new location, when identification requires disturbing a grave, or when indigenous peoples reclaim ancestors' bones from museums: The tribe held a ceremony for the reburial of their ancestors.
Serious and worrying
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
- casketBurial container
shroud · plot · mausoleum · crypt · sepulcher · necropolis · gravesite · earth
Formal moving line
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- mourningPeriod following loss
tribute · veneration · pallbearers · hearse · wake · solemnity · remembrance · ancestors
Act of unearthing
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- osteologyScientific study of bones
- skeletalOf or like bones
remains · curation · conservation · stratigraphy · artifacts · anthropology · provenance · documentation
Originating in a region
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- homelandOne's native land
- returnGo back again
- reclamationRecovery of something lost
sovereignty · colonial · museum · descendants · cultural · heritage · tribe · nation
grave
Serious and worrying
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
casket · shroud · plot · mausoleum · crypt · sepulcher · necropolis · gravesite · earth · headstone
procession
Formal moving line
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
mourning · tribute · veneration · pallbearers · hearse · wake · solemnity · remembrance · ancestors · funerary
excavation
Act of unearthing
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- osteologyScientific study of bones
skeletal · remains · curation · conservation · stratigraphy · artifacts · anthropology · provenance · documentation · analysis
indigenous
Originating in a region
reclamation · sovereignty · colonial · museum · descendants · cultural · heritage · tribe · nation · sacred
afterlife
Existence beyond mortality
tradition · ritual · peace · soul · spirit · eternal · rest · reverence · passage · honoring
- funeral customsfuneral, cremation, funeral procession, casket, mourning
- funeralsfuneral, cremation, casket, coffin, funeral homes
- archaeology termsruins, artifacts, excavation, dig, trowel
- burialcremation, interment, grave, entombment, inhumation
- conservationconservation, wildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary
- cemeterygrave, headstone, headstones, graves, tombstone
reburialexhumation
Recovering buried remains
disinterment · exhuming · unearthing · disinterring · digging up