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Coffined burial during the middle ages was: - Correct Answer was reserved for the wealthy and important
Who embalmed the body of the wife of Martin Van Butchell? - Correct Answer John Hunter
The Greek stelae, are also called a ___ tomb - Correct Answer Shaft
anthropmorphic or anthropodal refers to the shape of some early Egyptian coffins. They were in the shape of a ____ - Correct Answer Man
What group believed in their afterlife as the "elysian fields" - Correct Answer Greeks
The Romans believed that the "soul was the vital principle" of every human being. This contributed to their ____ view of death. - Correct Answer Animistic
Who in the course of their studies, dissected over 50 cadavers and made over 750 illustrations? - Correct Answer Leonardo da vinci
In which embalming method were the organs removed and placed in jars - Correct Answer Most expensive
Greek- Trapazze were the - Correct Answer square-cut tombs
What group or culture believed that their wealthy should have animals, servants, and food for their afterlife? - Correct Answer Egyptians
In order to have someone to provide for him in his afterlife, it was important for a Hebrew to have a/an - Correct Answer Son
In the late 17th century and early 18th century England, if undertakers made a sideline of furnishing upholstery, then area drapers: - Correct Answer Began to furnish funerary goods D'Argellata (a professor of anatomny) was the first to mention the use of ____to retard decomposition in cadavers - Correct Answer low temperatures
"Reducers" was another term for___ - Correct Answer Bloodletting
What type of disposition did the early Germans and Scandinavians favor for their dead? - Correct Answer Cremation
These were established during the middle ages to help defray the enormous expense involved in funeral services: Participants paid a "quarterage" or a premium - Correct Answer Burial clubs
The early Christians were forced to go underground and perform their worship in tombs. What were these underground tombs called? - Correct Answer Catacombs
Naidia were the___Greek structures for burial - Correct Answer Temple-like
This person could be given some money, bread, and a bowl of beer to assume the sins of their deceased - Correct Answer sin eater
During the Middle ages, linen was becoming rare and laws were created to limit its use as a burial material. This was mainly because linen was needed for - Correct Answer paper
What was the last name of the person that researched how the English were born, lived and dies? His research let to some social reform and change. - Correct Answer Chadwick
The vogue of black was given a powerful boost in 1498, when black was substituted for white by ___,
the widow of Charles VII of France. - Correct Answer Anne
Who was in complete charge in the Egyptian embalming chamber? - Correct Answer Kher-Heb
Which Egyptian embalming method consisted of puring the intestines and soaking the body for a period of seventy days? - Correct Answer Least-expensive