to build and maintain than a crypt, they were widely used. They offered privacy and shelter as well as enough workspace for mortuary proceedings. These proceedings included cremation (in the included crematorium) as well as defleshing of the body before the cremation.

At some Middle Woodland mound sites, burial mounds were constructed over pits that served to contain human remains and associated mortuary activity before final burial arrangements.

Once the houses

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