Burial
the most universal method lent to a limited extent among the Greeks and the Romans, and nearly universal among the Hindus, being the exception and not the rule. The Egyptians and, at least in some special cases, the according to Sir John Lubbock, interments in which the corpse is in a sitting Jews embalmed their dead. In Europe, and only the ashes interred, to the or contracted posture belong to the stone age, those in which it has been burned corpse lies extended, presumably to the bronze age, and those in which the age of iron. During the first French Revolution a proposal was made to adopt the process of cremation, but it failed. nent during the 19th century, and recom- The project was revived on the Conti- Henry Thompson, but as yet it has met public. See CREMATION. with only limited acceptance from the mended in England, in 1873, by Dr.
STEFAN, an Austro-Hungarian states-