why do people bury the dead?
These are questions that seemed to naturally arise upon the study of the cemetery. Burial is a form of preservation. A form of trapping a certain image and keeping it forever. There is notion of permanence integral to the concept of burial. The alternative to burial (which was rarely practiced in ancient Crete) was cremation. Cremation lets you capture and keep forever a physical part of the dead. This also offers a level of permanence. However, it is more symbolic. Burial was performed in variety of locations. There is the general, the cemetery, but then there are also the specifics–the chamber tombs, warrior graves, shaft graves, cave burials. The nature of burial in each of these locations is slightly different. The level of individualization and personalization of the burial varies from site to site. Burial was often accompanied by material possessions. There is a personalization aspect to burial. This also seems to indicate that living society believes that inhumation does not tr
