Footnote 1 – Death in Peqi’in

Ossuaries were used for secondary burials. In primary burials, the deceased was simply placed in a permanent grave. In secondary burials, the bones of a corpse were reinterred a year or so after the primary burial. Usually this involved placing the bones in a rectangular box, made of stone or clay, about 2 feet long (the length of the longest bones in the body).