Earth:Mortuary cave
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Short description: Type of burial place
A mortuary cave or a mortuary sinkhole, alternately burial cave, burial sinkhole, or crevice interment, is a naturally formed cavity in the earth that is intentionally used by humans as a cache for dead bodies. There are a number of known Paleoindian mortuary sinkholes in Texas,[1] including Bering Sinkhole,[2] a number of mortuary caves have been identified in Virginia,[3] and at least one burial sinkhole was used by Native Hawaiians at what is now Kalaeloa Heritage Park.[4] The bodies of 30 Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek during the American Civil War were initially deposited in a natural sinkhole; the bodies were later excavated and relocated to Springfield National Cemetery.[5]
References
- ↑ Alvarez, Christine E. (May 2005) (in en). Bioarchaeological Investigation of Human Skeletal Remains at the Stiver Ranch Burial Sinkhole (41KM140). https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/8887.
- ↑ Bement, Leland C. (1994). Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic. University of Texas Press. doi:10.7560/708174. ISBN 978-0-292-70817-4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/708174.
- ↑ "Burial Caves in Virginia". http://www.virginiaplaces.org/population/burialcave.html.
- ↑ "Kalaeloa Heritage Park ʻEwa, Oʻahu FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT". September 2014. https://dbedt.hawaii.gov/hcda/files/2014/09/KHP-Final-EA-w-Appendices_to-OEQC.pdf.
- ↑ "Sinkhole on Bloody Hill (U.S. National Park Service)" (in en). https://www.nps.gov/places/sinkhole-on-bloody-hill.htm.
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