Sentence example with the word 'ossuaries'

ossuaries

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In the first period (Italic) cremation burials closely approximating to the Villanova type are found; in the second 1 (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of stone, and situlae (bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third (Gallic), which begins during the 4th centilry B.C., though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer, the ossuaries being of badly baked rough clay, and show traces of Gallic influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene civilization.   [Please select]

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The ground is so full of dead that the earth-falls uncover places that bristle with feet, with half-clothed skeletons, and with ossuaries of skulls placed side by side on the steep slope like porcelain globe-jars.   [Please select]

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North Carolina burial mounds Northwest coast mummies Ohio burial mounds Oregon, cremation in Ossuaries Ossuaries, Choctaw Iroquois Natchez Ossuary of Choctaws Otis, U.   [Please select]

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Parthians, burial customs of Partial cremation Cherokees embalmment, Congaree and Santee Indians scaffold burial and ossuaries Persians, ancient burial customs of mortuary customs of Pilling, J.   [Please select]

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