ritual burial
Ceremonial body disposition
Ritual burial is the ceremonial interment of the dead according to prescribed customs or religious practices.
Unlike simple disposal of remains, ritual burial involves intentional acts—positioning the body, including grave goods, performing rites—that reflect beliefs about death and the afterlife.
The presence of ritual burial in archaeological sites is considered evidence of symbolic thinking: Ritual burial appeared among early humans at least 100,000 years ago.
- funeralService honoring the dead
- last ritesSacrament for the dying
- death ritesCeremonies for the departed
- graveSerious and worrying
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
ceremony · mourning · laying to rest · coffin · ashes · funeral pyre · shroud · grave goods · interment · sacred · sacred ground · ancestors · procession · offering · death · mound · rites · sepulcher
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- ancient burialstumulus, barrow, cairn, dolmen, passage grave
ritual burialcremation
Burning the deceased
sky burial · exposure · body donation · abandonment · sea burial
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