FUNERARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does funerary mean? 

• FUNERARY (adjective)
  The adjective FUNERARY has 1 sense:

1. of or for or relating to a funeral

  Familiarity information: FUNERARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNERARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or for or relating to a funeral

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

funerary urn

Pertainym:

funeral (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)

Derivation:

funeral (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)

 Context examples 

This has allowed to discover that the necropolis was used for funerary rituals thoughout the Copper and Bronze ages, about 2,000 years, a thousand more than what was previously thought.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

In both cases, the sites were used for ritual and funerary purposes for over a thousand years.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany said the tomb is not in good condition, but it contains a statue of the goldsmith and his wife as well as a funerary mask.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The tomb contains a mummy wrapped in linen, clay vessels, a collection of about 450 statues, and painted wooden funerary masks.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)

In April, archaeologists unearthed several mummies, 10 colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues near the city of Luxor.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Homogenous dietary habits, together with ritual and funerary practices in which the emphasis was on community rather than the individual, show that Megalithic peoples were characterized by social relations that were fundamentally based on values ​​such as equality, reciprocity, and solidarity.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Moreover, the UGR team of researchers points out that, although in the Bronze Age a new type of funerary ritual with individual tombs was established, this did not mean the social rupture that we thought until now, since the re‑use of ancient funerary monuments continued for several hundred years.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

The anthropological study of the remains, which are mixed together forming ossuaries, has shown that individuals of both genders and of all ages accessed to the funerary ritual, with little presence of children despite the high mortality rates.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

The study has emphasized that the use of large megalithic funerary structures shows, for the first time, the desire of human societies of transcending their present by creating a sacred landscape based on collective memory and the cult of ancestors.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

Researchers from the University of Granada have discovered that the megalithic necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería, south‑eastern Spain) prolonged its funerary use throughout the Bronze Age, a thousand years longer than previously thought, and that despite its proximity to the sea, people living there did not make use of marine resources.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)