| 单词 | secondary burial or interment |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecondary burial or interment h. Archaeology. secondary burial or interment: a burial of human remains in a site used for burial at an earlier time (see also quot. 1960); Secondary Neolithic: (of or pertaining to) that part of the Neolithic period in Britain marked by the fusion of native Mesolithic cultural elements with those of immigrant European agricultural peoples. ΚΠ 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iv. 110 It appears reasonable to conclude that these interments belong to the ante-metallic period; especially when..we find several secondary interments, plainly belonging to a later age. 1877 W. Greenwell Brit. Barrows 13 These secondary interments have been made either by placing the body on the surface of an existing barrow..or by making an excavation into it. Secondary burials occur in all parts of a barrow. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles i. 15 These Secondary Neolithic cultures, as I have called them, were to form the basis of the ensuing British Bronze Age. 1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land iv. 86 The burials as we find them were secondary. That is to say, the bones were only placed in their present position after the flesh had largely decayed. 1963 E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. i. iv. 60 The secondary Neolithic is now appearing more complicated than it looked a few years ago. 1963 H. N. Savory in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment iii. 26 It is therefore no longer necessary to envisage a narrow horizon on which Primary and Secondary Neolithic and ‘Beaker’ elements can scarcely be disentangled. 1977 Kwang-chih Chang Archaeol. Anc. China (ed. 3) viii. 406 Three ways to dispose of the dead were distinguished..: cremation and ash urns; interment of the dorsal and stretched type; and probably secondary burials. < as lemmas |
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