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Definitionn. any receptacle for the burial of human bones
Last update: October 20, 2015
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Those that have been mentioned seem to have been sanctuaries (some of them in part dwelling-places), but Halsaflieni was an enormous ossuary, of which others may have existed in other parts of the island; for the numerous rock-cut tombs which are everywhere to be seen belong to the Phoenician and Roman periods. [Please select]
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After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon. [Please select]
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A wall of stones was built around this vast ossuary to preserve it from profanation. [Please select]
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] in alluding to the ossuary or bone-house, mentions that so soon as this is filled a general inhumation takes place, in this manner. [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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