Cremation - Exam 1 Questions & 100% Correct Answers- Latest Test | Graded A+ | Passed

Cremation - Exam 1 Questions & 100% Correct Answers- Latest Test | Graded A+ | Passed Cremation - Correct Answer mechanical and/or thermal or other dissolution process that reduces human remains to bone fragments includes the processing and usually includes the pulverization of the bone fragments Cremation (first evidence) - Correct Answer First evidence of fire used as a means of disposition: circa 20,000-26,000 years ago: LM2 or the "Mungo Lady""botched" cremation Ancient Greeks - Correct Answer Circa 1000BCE in the Mycenaean Age through 350 BCE, "fire burial" becomes an elaborate part of Grecian disposition; Cremation "sets the soul free" to travel to the afterlife; Fallen soldiers get elaborate pyres; remaining bones collected; easier to transport and entomb with honors ANCIENT ROMANS - Correct Answer D27BCE to 395CE customs change with earth and fire burial practiced; Romans developed grand columbaria; Practice becomes dominant in first century after Christ Constantine's Christianization of Europe - Correct Answer Cremation all but disappears for next 1500 years or so except in cases of plague; Burial becomes accepted mode Henry Laurens - Correct Answer 1783-1st recorded pre-planned cremation; Charleston, SC; 1792-Died and his ashes interred at his estate (1st formal cremation in USA) 1873 - Correct Answer Origin of Modern Cremation; Professor Brunetti