passage grave

(noun)

A burial chamber consisting of a narrow passage made of large stones and one or multiple burial chambers covered in earth or stone.

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Examples of passage grave in the following topics:

  • Neolithic Monuments

    • Passage tombs or graves consist of narrow passages made of large stones and one or multiple burial chambers covered in earth or stone.
    • A common layout is the cruciform passage grave, characterized by a cross-shaped structure.
    • Knowth is a Neolithic passage grave and monument located in the valley of the River Boyne in Ireland.
    • The right recess is larger and more elaborately decorated than the others, which is a typical trait of Irish passage graves.
    • They lead to a series of semi-circular apses connected by a central passage.

  • The Rite of Passage

    • The rite of passage, still practiced by some Africans today, is a traditional ceremony in which a person enters into a new phase of life.
    • Rites of passage in African culture have undergone many changes from pre-colonial to contemporary times.
    • Opponents to FGM argue that it is a human rights violations that poses grave health risks, such as fatal hemorrhaging, cysts, recurrent infections, chronic pain, and obstetrical complications.
    • Many cultures used scarification to mark a rite of passage such as puberty.
    • Define a rite of passage, and describe the examples of scarification and circumcision.

  • Mycenaean Metallurgy

    • Grave Circle A is a set of graves from the sixteenth century BCE located at Mycenae.
    • The graves were often marked by a mound of earth above them and grave stele.
    • Grave Circle A, Grave Shaft IV, Mycenae, Greece.
    • Grave Circle A, Grave shaft V, Mycenae, Greece.
    • Grave Circle A, Grave Shaft IV, Mycenae, Greece.

  • Stelae in the Greek High Classical Period

    • Stelae as grave markers became popular around 430 BCE, coinciding with the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
    • The Grave Stele of Hegeso from the Kerameikos Cemetery outside of Athens depicts a seated woman.
    • The Grave Stele of an Athlete (early fourth century BCE) from the island of Delos depicts a male athlete receiving lekythos of oil from a male youth.
    • While the above stelae commemorate adults, grave stelae also commemorated those who died as children.
    • Such images of children and companion animals are common subject matter on grave stelae of the Classical era.

  • The American Indian Wars

    • Signed in 1851 between the United States and the Plains Indians and the Indians of the northern Rocky Mountains, the treaty allowed passage by migrants and the building of roads and the stationing of troops along the Oregon Trail.
    • Increasing settlement following the passage of the Homestead Act and the building of the transcontinental railways following the Civil War further destabilized the situation, placing white settlers into direct competition for the land and resources of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain West.

  • "The Hour of Maximum Danger"

    • The spread of communism during the Kennedy administration represented a grave threat to the Western world.
    • The following month, the Soviet Union and East Berlin began blocking any further passage of East Berliners into West Berlin and erected barbed wire fences across the city, which were quickly upgraded to the Berlin Wall.

  • The Atlantic Theater

    • The Union Blockade, or the Blockade of the South, was an American Civil War effort in which the Union Navy prevented the passage of trade goods, supplies and arms to and from the Confederate States of America.
    • In early March of 1862, the blockade of the James River in Virginia was gravely threatened by the first ironclad, the CSS Virginia (also known as the "Merrimack") in the dramatic Battle of Hampton Roads.

  • Slave Religion

    • He asserts that the retention of African culture acted as a form of resistance to enslavement: "All things considered, the...Africans enslaved in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America appear to have survived their traumatic experiences without becoming abjectly docile, infantile or submissive" and "since an overwhelming percentage of nineteenth-century Southern slaves were native Americans, they never underwent this kind of shock [the Middle Passage] and were in a position to construct psychological defenses against total dependency on their masters. "
    • Other religious survivals noted by Blassingame include funeral rites, grave decorating and ritualistic dancing and singing.

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  • The Black Death

    • Mongol dominance of Eurasian trade routes enabled safe passage through more secured trade routes.
    • From Central Asia the Black Death was carried east and west along the Silk Road by Mongol armies and traders making use of the opportunities of free passage within the Mongol Empire offered by the Pax Mongolica.
    • It consisted of the personified Death leading a row of dancing figures from all walks of life to the grave—typically with an emperor, king, pope, monk, youngster, and beautiful girl, all in skeleton-state.