Secondary burial

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The term secondary burial (also multi-phase or multi-stage burial) applies to burials in which the originally buried body is exhumed and buried at another location. Richard Huntington and Peter Metcalf define secondary treatment in "Celebrations Death" as regular transport after a period of several months; to the final disposal site. Often not the entire skeletal material is reburied, but only the most important skeletal parts. The ossuary of the late Middle Ages is an example of secondary burials .

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literature

  • Jörg Orschiedt : Manipulation of human skeletal remains. Taphonomic processes, secondary burials or cannibalism? Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte 13, 1999, Tübingen.
  • Gisela Reppel: bones for eternity. The secondary burials of the Merina in Madagascar. In: Ulrike Krasberg, Godula Kosack (ed.): … And what about the soul? Concepts of the soul in a cultural comparison. Lembeck, Frankfurt, M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-87476-595-4 , pp. 169-194