inhumation

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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

Instances show that the two rites of inhumation and cremation were practised side by side.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George

The commonest method was some form of inhumation in pits, graves, or holes in the ground, in stone graves or cysts, in mounds, beneath or in houses, or in caves.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

Funeral Rites.—Both inhumation and cremation were practised in heathen times.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The materials of which these articles are formed, are jasper, quartz, granite stained by copper, and clay slate, all showing that peculiar time-worn polish which such substances acquire by long inhumation.

From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Morton, Samuel George