inhumation

Noun

inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

1. The act of burial.
   • "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Sep 2010
   • Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 Sep 2010
2. 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.
3. Arenation.