Package: BurialSites
Parent: Cultural
Relevant types:
Name | Type | Definition | Description |
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Cemetery_P | Feature Type | A site and associated structures devoted to the burial of the dead. | - |
Cemetery_S | Feature Type | A site and associated structures devoted to the burial of the dead. | - |
GraveMarker_P | Feature Type | A marker indicating an individual grave site. | Often located at a cemetery. |
Grave_P | Feature Type | A site where a human corpse is buried. | It normally contains a single human corpse, however in some cultures servants and/or animals are buried with the deceased. The site is usually marked. |
MassGrave_P | Feature Type | A grave containing multiple, usually unidentified, human corpses. | Mass graves may be created after a large number of people die or are killed due to a natural disaster, disease, epidemic, warfare or criminal activity. Mass grave sites may not be marked, as in cases where they have been created to conceal genocide. |
MassGrave_S | Feature Type | A grave containing multiple, usually unidentified, human corpses. | Mass graves may be created after a large number of people die or are killed due to a natural disaster, disease, epidemic, warfare or criminal activity. Mass grave sites may not be marked, as in cases where they have been created to conceal genocide. |
Tomb_P | Feature Type | A structure within which a corpse is entombed. | It is often a building-like structure that may be partly or wholly underground (except for its entrance), but may be a simple enclosure cut into solid rock (for example: into a cliff face or inside of a cave). It may contain a single corpse or a related group (for example: a family) may be entombed together. |