CIVILIZATION
HITTITE
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Question
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burned on a pyre
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buried in a shaft tomb with gold masks and other high-status grave goods
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buried in huge chamber tombs with high status grave goods
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bodies were eaten by the family to take in the ancestors’ wisdom
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sky burial:bodies were left out to be eaten by animals and birds
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tholos tombs were the most elaborate type of burial in Mycenaean Greece, so they were reserved for the elite and royalty. Once the chamber and the dromos were complete, the body was buried under the chamber with grave goods. After the burial, the tholos tomb was buried with dirt until it was mostly covered.
Detailed explanation-2: -Around them were sumptuous grave goods, weapons, ceramic and metal vases and objects of everyday use which reveal the high social status of the dead if not their royalty.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mycenaean chamber tombs were cut into the bedrock (as opposed to the contemporary tholos tombs, which are constructed from masonry), usually on sloping terrain, and formed of a chamber (thalamos), joined to a rectangular passageway (dromos) by a threshold (stomion).