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The process of constructing and properly burning a funeral pyre is a skilled task. Often, pyres would not burn with enough heat to properly cremate human remains. Pyres had to be maintained by stoking the flame and raking the pyre to allow good oxygen flow. Ancient literature refers to the skilled
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that had been tightly sealed and had no evidence of environmental disturbance it was found that on average bigger bone fragment sizes were observed meaning less bone breakage had occurred. It was concluded that if cremated bone is placed in an urn before burial the original bone fragment size will be
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A study conducted by Alunni, et al. examined the forensic science behind cremations on wooden pyres. The study concluded the average pyre does not completely destroy a human body effectively, and differences in suicide via pyres are evident in the remains. A pyre suicide shows signs of remains being
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In the time leading up to the 2nd century AD popular funeral practices in Rome consisted of cremation with a pyre. Ideal funeral practices meant burning an ornamental pyre for the deceased, that would burn with enough heat and a long enough time to only leave ashes and small bone fragments. Having
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experimental studies are necessary to fully understand the differences the body undergoes in a pyre. Coloring of bones before cremation is dependent on oxygen exposure, duration, and temperature. The bone color can range from black to brown or an oxidized white color. The type of bone and method of
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Chakrabarty RK, et al. examined the environmental effects of
Southern Asia's funeral pyres in their study, "Funeral pyres in South Asia: Brown carbon aerosol emissions and climate impacts". The heating of the atmosphere from carbonaceous aerosols resulting from human activities is a significant
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aerosols. These high chemical levels were also found to correlate to higher aerosol fraction levels during winter months in both Muslim Holy
Shrines and marriage places. The study concluded PM concentrations were significantly higher in indoor-ritual locations and suggested further studies and
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Dewangan, Shippi; Pervez, Shamsh; Chakrabarty, Rajan; Watson, John G.; Chow, Judith C.; Pervez, Yasmeen; Tiwari, Suresh; Rai, Joyce (1 September 2016). "Study of carbonaceous fractions associated with indoor PM2.5/PM10 during Asian cultural and ritual burning practices".
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is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the deceased husband with his corpse or remains. This involves volunteering oneself (and generally being in state of samadhi) to be burnt alive on the pyre with the remains of her husband for higher state of life.
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preserved. This study was intended to explain that more cautionary measures should be taken during and after any cremation occurs and to educate those who are studying cremated bone that the size of the fragments will be smaller than there were right after cremation.
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A traditional Hindu funeral pyre takes six hours and burns 500–600 kg (1,102–1,323 pounds) of wood to burn a body completely. Every year fifty to sixty million trees are burned during cremations in India, which results in about eight million tonnes of
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A second study examined the carbonaceous fractions associated with indoor PM2.5/PM10 during Asian cultural and ritual burning practices. (Dewangan, et al.) This study concluded drastically higher levels of biomass burning markers within
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working to reduce the environmental impact of funeral pyres. They claim to have created an alternative to wood-based funeral pyres, which reduces the number of trees which need to be cut down. Their alternative also promotes the
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was granted permission to be cremated on a traditional open-air pyre, when a court of appeals in the United
Kingdom ruled them legal inside of a building with an open roof and away from roads or homes. In the U.S., a group in
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Chakrabarty, Rajan K.; Pervez, Shamsh; Chow, Judith C.; Watson, John G.; Dewangan, Shippi; Robles, Jerome; Tian, Guoxun (14 January 2014). "Funeral Pyres in South Asia: Brown Carbon
Aerosol Emissions and Climate Impacts".
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job of an ustor, meaning a professional pyre builder derived from the Latin word 'ūrere' which means, to burn. However, regardless of professional build, pyres were unpredictable and would go wrong on a regular basis.
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In ancient times burning bodies was a practiced form of burial. Open-air cremations, known as funeral pyres, are uncommon and even illegal in some countries, particularly in the
Western World, because it is considered
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more charred rather than completely oxidized by high temperatures, are in anatomically correct positions, poor bone fragmentation, and is without suspicious burn patterns compared to an individual murdered via pyre.
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pyres consisted of primarily Scots pine, birch, and oak trees, as pines, birch, and oak were dense in local woodlands. All parts of the tree were used including the trunk, branches, twigs, and even pine cones.
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remains are different from traditional human remains in the sense that their physical appearance including bone vary in color, fragmentation, and differ from their original shape and dimension. This is why
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cooling may also alter the bone form. Cooling is also an important consideration, for if the remains are cooled via water it increases warping. This knowledge is a consideration for
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Moskal-del Hoyo, Magdalena (2012). "The use of wood in funerary pyres: random gathering or special selection of species? Case study of three necropolises from Poland".
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rituals performed indoors compared to levels collected for residential indoors and ambient outdoors, with levels reaching three- to eightfold higher levels of
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actions be taken to investigate risk and health assessment and calls for regulatory agencies to propose new guidelines for indoor cultural/ritual locations.
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Alunni, Veronique; Grevin, Gilles; Buchet, Luc; Quatrehomme, Gérald (1 August 2014). "Forensic aspect of cremations on wooden pyre".
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writes of extreme cases in which bodies have been thrown from the pyre from the force of the flames. Other cases, described by
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Mckinley, Jacqueline (1994). "A pyre and grave goods in
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O'Donnell, Lorna (2016). "The power of the pyre - A holistic study of cremation focusing on charcoal remains".
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1080:"Alternative Funerals - What are your options today?"
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1161:"Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus"
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258:or the Pope, is burned.
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1109:Thefuneralsite's Weblog
538:A Greek–English Lexicon
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3012:Spiritual drug use
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1078:Marsden, Sara J.
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841:978-3-540-00238-3
818:"(12472) Samadhi"
668:www.jewishgen.org
644:(11): 3386–3395.
555:Harper, Douglas.
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2890:Long barrow
2880:Grave goods
2836:Court cairn
2831:Clava cairn
2783:Bowl barrow
2721:Rock cupule
2664:Golden hats
2657:Hill figure
2558:Unstan ware
2538:Cord-marked
2403:Sweet Track
2325:Burnt mound
2246:Stilt house
2234:Sibudu Cave
2027:Tally stick
1995:Quern-stone
1980:Hammerstone
1970:Fire plough
1941:Pesse canoe
1899:Bannerstone
1869:Other tools
1782:Lithic core
1730:Aurignacian
1618:Bare Island
1500:Quern-stone
1183:: 167–172.
1011:12 November
977:19 November
925:: 229–236.
617:: 161–171.
457:Roman pyres
294:ritualistic
170:flake tools
72:; from
3103:Categories
3034:trepanning
2927:Ring cairn
2885:Jar burial
2868:transepted
2800:U.S. sites
2701:Petroglyph
2627:Bird stone
2585:wine press
2258:Stone roof
2241:Roundhouse
2133:long house
2110:Stonehenge
2078:Ceremonial
2022:Stone tool
1849:Tool stone
1819:Metallurgy
1723:Mousterian
1700:Toolmaking
1638:Cumberland
1611:Transverse
1581:Schöningen
1473:Qesem cave
1441:Earth oven
1395:Irrigation
1306:Technology
1274:Prehistory
1035:CBS Denver
847:24 January
771:19 January
591:19 January
501:References
444:man named
275:crematoria
256:Guy Fawkes
130:Bronze Age
3119:Cremation
3078:symbolism
2942:Tor cairn
2900:Grønsalen
2841:Cremation
2733:Sculpture
2711:Pictogram
2696:Petroform
2516:amber use
2484:Cosmetics
2294:Reservoir
2279:Check dam
2209:Pueblitos
2204:Pit-house
2187:Longhouse
2121:Dwellings
1990:Microlith
1921:Bow drill
1916:Bone tool
1909:prismatic
1718:Acheulean
1633:Cresswell
1606:Arrowhead
1532:Boomerang
1448:Granaries
1410:Terracing
1289:Stone Age
1064:. London.
710:161202654
690:Antiquity
585:The Times
418:emissions
271:Treblinka
238:culture.
216:Mon State
154:Treblinka
112:Materials
95:cremation
59:romanized
2716:Rock art
2679:painting
2652:Geoglyph
2477:timeline
2457:Beadwork
2197:Mehrgarh
2192:Mudbrick
2100:megalith
1975:Fire-saw
1797:debitage
1792:analysis
1760:Hand axe
1740:Cupstone
1318:Glossary
1279:Timeline
1221:24 April
1197:24949561
1115:23 April
1089:23 April
1041:20 March
1037:. Denver
802:24 April
767:. London
673:24 April
587:. London
490:forensic
485:Cremated
472:Plutarch
402:toxicity
282:Varanasi
232:Germanic
118:Charcoal
3073:Symbols
2684:pigment
2570:Weaving
2533:Cardium
2528:Pottery
2523:Mirrors
2511:Jewelry
2452:Baskets
2432:culture
2284:Cistern
2090:Pyramid
2032:Weapons
2010:Scraper
2000:Racloir
1960:Cleaver
1948:Chopper
1854:Uniface
1765:Grooves
1755:Hafting
1713:Oldowan
1672:Systems
1623:Cascade
1586:woomera
1576:harpoon
1549:history
1515:Hunting
1495:Pottery
1436:Cooking
1345:Farming
1311:history
1284:Outline
1005:(Video)
998:YouTube
541:at the
267:Sobibor
242:Secular
124:Ireland
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3051:flutes
2846:Dolmen
2770:Burial
2580:winery
2553:Linear
2383:Midden
2361:Cursus
2354:Goseck
2214:Pueblo
2165:Dugout
2150:Burdei
1829:Mining
1653:Lamoka
1648:Folsom
1628:Clovis
1485:Metate
1463:Hearth
1431:Basket
1405:Sickle
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955:4 July
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557:"pyre"
360:burial
290:Moksha
263:Belzec
146:Polish
136:Poland
2968:sites
2912:Mummy
2632:Cairn
2548:Jōmon
2499:shoes
2494:Hides
2366:Henge
2320:Broch
2182:Jacal
2037:Wheel
1985:Knife
1931:Canoe
1926:Burin
1904:Blade
1802:flake
1663:Plano
1571:baton
1561:Spear
1527:Arrow
1480:Manos
1333:Tools
951:. CNN
792:Proof
706:S2CID
442:Hindu
431:taboo
306:Hindu
304:Some
236:Roman
224:Hindu
166:flint
3114:Fire
3061:gudi
2819:Cist
2748:list
2575:Wine
2504:Ötzi
2489:Glue
2462:Beds
2430:and
2428:Arts
2299:Well
2155:Cave
2085:Kiva
2015:side
2005:Rope
1953:tool
1887:bone
1877:Adze
1643:Eden
1556:Nets
1426:Fire
1390:Goad
1375:Celt
1223:2017
1193:PMID
1117:2017
1091:2017
1043:2017
1013:2018
979:2015
957:2013
869:ISBN
849:2022
836:ISBN
804:2017
773:2011
675:2017
593:2011
515:πυρά
336:Laos
314:Sati
310:Sati
269:and
234:and
228:Sikh
226:and
194:Uses
187:urns
168:and
67:purá
52:πυρά
42:pyre
34:Ubud
2170:Hut
2105:row
1936:Oar
1894:Axe
1882:Awl
1185:doi
1181:241
1143:doi
927:doi
923:106
899:doi
826:doi
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646:doi
619:doi
523:πῦρ
409:NGO
394:ash
380:or
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77:πῦρ
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