Ganges water pollution and its management through religion by A. K. Chopra, G. Prasad, D. R. Khanna

“…The major polluting industries are the leather industries that use large amounts of Chromium and other chemicals, and much of it finds its way into the meager flow of the Ganges Besides , a large volume of waste-estimated at nearly 1 billion liters of mostly untreated raw sewage is dumped in the river per day. Also inadequate cremation procedures contribute to a large of partially burnt or unburnt, corpse floating down the Ganga, not to mention livestock corpses. …”
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First Contacts of the Danubian Slavs and Avars: The Evidences from the Byzantine Writers and Archaeology by Michel Kazanski

“…The site contained 22 Slavic cremation graves, where Merovingian goods appeared. …”
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An 18th Century Ukrainian Parallel to the Baltic Myth of Sovius by Kostyantyn Rakhno

“…He is the common ancestor of the Lithuanians, Yatvyags and Prussians, who practice cremation of the dead. After relating the tale of Sovius, the chronographer condemns the pagan beliefs and customs of the Lithuanian neighbours. …”
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The characterisation of a Bronze Age weapon hoard by Northover, J, Bridgford, S

“…Besides a consideration of the hoard from a typological perspective the project used five methods of examination: a) a surface study for manufacturing traces, combat damage, possible cremation, and damage in the ground or at recovery, b) radiography, c) compositional analysis by electron probe microanalysis, d) optical metallography, and e) microhardness testing. …”

SPIRITUAL TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF FOREIGNERS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE PITRAYAJNA CEREMONY IN THE DESA PAKRAMAN OF MUNCAN, SELAT, KARANGASEM, BALI by Nararya - Narottama

“…When the series of Pitrayajña ceremonies (Balinese traditional cremation series) took place in 2009 at this village, a lot of foreigners from various countries got involved, includeing Germany, Turkey, Israel, the Netherlands, UK, Spain, Belgium and Italy. …”
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Menyama Braya: Balinese Hindu-Muslim Ethnoreligious construction in the creation of peace education by Moch. Khafidz Fuad Raya, Vialinda Siswati, Akhmad Nurul Kawakip, Amin Tohari, Wawan Herry Setyawan, M. Mukhibat

“…In religious rituals, menyama-braya is present in ngaben (the cremation tradition) and religious day ceremonies of each religion). …”
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Burials of Lugovskaya Culture from Murzikha II Burial Ground in the Estuary Trans-Kama Region by Lyganov Anton V., Chizhevsky Andrei A.

“…Most of the burials were performed with the deceased in a crouched position on the left side, and only one burial was performed using a cremation rite. The space between graves contained sacrificial complexes consisting of broken vessels. …”
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Early La Tène Graves from Orehova vas near Maribor by Lucija Grahek

“…In the case of cremation grave 1, the weapons were ritually destroyed, but not in grave 3. …”
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Let's make a mess, maybe no one will notice. The impact of bioturbation activity on the urn fill condition. by Agata Hałuszko, Marcin Kadej, Grzegorz Gmyrek, Maciej Guziński

“…The research was carried out at the cremation cemetery of the Lusatian culture in Wtórek, Ostrów Wielkopolski district, Wielkopolska province, Poland. …”
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Complaints on abortuses handling: policy recommendations for Hong Kong by Celine S.M. Cheng, Amanda P.Y. Lau

“…Yet, the provision of funeral and cremation services are still not comprehensive. Existing measures from Mainland China and overseas countries to handle abortuses and to provide support for parents are analyzed. …”
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Determining the postmortem timing of sharp force damage and the pre-burning condition of burnt bone by Végh, EI, Márquez-Grant, N, Schulting, RJ

“…Some prehistoric societies are suggested to have defleshed human remains prior to cremation, mostly classified based on the lack of warping and thumbnail fractures. …”

Calcined bone provides a reliable substrate for strontium isotope ratios as shown by an enrichment experiment by Snoeck, C, Lee-Thorp, J, Schulting, R, de Jong, J, Debouge, W, Mattielli, N

“…Currently, tooth enamel is considered to be the most reliable tissue, but it rarely survives heating so that in cremations only calcined bone fragments survive. We set out to test the proposition that calcined bone might prove resistant to diagenesis, given its relatively high crystallinity, as the ability to measure in vivo (87) Sr/(86) Sr from calcined bone would greatly extend application to places and periods in which cremation was the dominant mortuary practice, or where unburned bone and enamel do not survive. …”

A 1st Millennium BCE Burial-Deprived Ritual Practice: New Evidences from Shahliq Kurgan, Northwestern Iran by Nasrin Ghahremani, Farzad Mafi, Araz Najafi

“…The ash material recovered from the site suggested the tradition of cremation, a hypothesisrejected in later anthropological experiments. …”
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Burial Rite of the Shchukinsky Burial Ground of the Lomovatovo Archaeological Culture by Moryakhina Kristina V.

“…At the site, the burials were made according to the rite of cremation and inhumation. There are grave pits without structural features and there are pits with niches, shoulders and ledges. …”
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Finds of Gold and Silver Ornaments of the People of the Wielbark Culture From the Area of the So-Called Eastern Zone of the Przeworsk Culture by Angelika Błażejewska

“…Research and experiments involving the cremation of funeral pyres with grave goods have demonstrated that small non-ferrous metal ornaments almost entirely vanish, either fusing with the funeral pyre or melting to the point of becoming imperceptible. …”
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A DISK MIRROR RECENTLY DISCOVERED SOUTH THE LOWER MUREȘ by Vitalie Bârcă

“…The mirror was found at  ca. 1 m north grave 1 in site <em>B0_6, </em>where beside other two cremation graves, poorly preserved, other 129 archaeological features were also investigated.…”
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A Unique Form of Ritualism of the Early Medieval Population of Sambia by A Unique Form of Ritualism of the Early Medieval Population of Sambia

“…It was presented as an inhumation on a wooden platform, named option “a” and was interpreted as a possible transition from cremation to inhumation burial. This variant “a” was presented only at five complexes of the Dollkeim/Kovrovo-1 burial ground. …”
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Presumed Presence of Extensor Indicis et Digiti Medii Communis Muscle in a 70-Year-Old White Male Donor by Isabella Penkwitz, Gary Wind, Elizabeth Maynes, Maria Ximena Leighton, Guinevere Granite

“…However, further inspection of this region was impeded as the body was sent for cremation prior to the variation being identified. …”
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Reconstruction of the Casting Technology in the Bronze Age on the Basis of Investigations and Visualisation of Casting Moulds by Garbacz-Klempka A., Kwak Z., Żak P. L., Szucki M., Ścibior D., Stolarczyk T., Nowak K.

“…During excavation of the cremation cemetery of urnfield culture in Legnica at Spokojna Street (Lower Silesia, Poland), dated to 1100-700 BC, the largest - so far in Poland – a collection of casting moulds from the Bronze Age was discovered: three moulds for axes casting made out of stone and five moulds for casting sickles, razors, spearhead and chisels, made out of clay. …”
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Genetic history of East-Central Europe in the first millennium CE by Ireneusz Stolarek, Michal Zenczak, Luiza Handschuh, Anna Juras, Malgorzata Marcinkowska-Swojak, Anna Spinek, Artur Dębski, Marzena Matla, Hanna Kóčka-Krenz, Janusz Piontek, Polish Archaeogenomics Consortium Team, Marek Figlerowicz

“…Testing either hypothesis is not trivial given that cremation of the dead was the prevailing custom in Central Europe from the late Bronze Age until the Middle Ages (MA). …”
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