What's the difference between disinterment and inhumation?

Disinterment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the course of a disinterment of an ancient Avar burial place at Székkutas-Kápolna near Hódmezövásárhely, Hungary, the archaeologist conducting the excavations, Miss Katalin B. Nagy, noticed a lithoid body of oval shape in the pelvis of a skeleton.
  • (2) This article presents our experience with several cases of disinterment, including reasons for disinterment, the methodology involved, and the value of this activity in solving medicolegal problems.
  • (3) After the convulsive disinterment of still living ghosts of Vichy in the 1980s and 90s, collabos and professional antisemites such as Paul Touvier, Maurice Papon and René Bousquet, it became evident that the stain of Vichy was ineradicable even when almost everyone else was dead.

Inhumation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
  • (n.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
  • (n.) Arenation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For three of these major causes of suffocation and strangulation deaths among infants and children (refrigerator or freezer entrapment, suffocation by plastic bag, and inhumation at construction sites), there appears to have been a significant decline in incidence; however, there is no evidence of a significant reduction in deaths from mechanical strangulation in cribs.
  • (2) The inhumation and cremation burials from two tumulus cemeteries of the Hallstatt period (750-500 BC), Dietfurt and Schirndorf, which are both located in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, were used as illustrations.
  • (3) A few years later, countermeasures were introduced to prevent deaths resulting from suffocation by plastic bags, inhumation, and mechanical strangulation from wedging in infant cribs.
  • (4) Using the described methods, the following data relating to age-structure for the inhumation burials of both Hallstatt cemeteries could be attained.
  • (5) Pathological findings from early Iron Age inhumation burials from three cemeteries of the Hallstatt Period (Beilngries, Dietfurt and Schirndorf) in the Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) were compiled.

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