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cist grave (en)  

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  • A prehistoric coffin containing either a body or ashes, usually made of stone or a hollowed-put tree, of Europe and Asia. The grave might be lined with stones and covered with slabs or enclosed on four sides by stone slabs standing upright and cloed with

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  • Kipfer, B. A. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. P 119.

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