142 INHUMATION AND INCINERATION IN EUROPE. 



Research in different portions of Russia leads to the same conclusions. Mr. 

 Radimski has opened 530 graves in the necropolis of Jezerina. Three-fifths showed 

 incineration ; but everywhere the two rites were apparent in neighboring tombs and 

 sometimes even in the same one. The majority of mortuary deposits belong to the 

 epoch of la Tene, but some were of the date of Hallstatt and even of the Roman 

 period. 1 * 



The results obtained by Mr. Zavinetvich in the proyince of Minsk, White 

 Russia, show that inhumation predominated with increasing ratio in proportion as 

 one approached the Dnieper. 2 



In the country formerly belonging to the Jadzvinques the presence of the two 

 mortuary rites is noted. 3 



In all Europe we are confronted with two very different forms of sepulchral 

 rites. We cannot tell their origin, we know only that cremation by degrees 

 disappeared before the progress of Christianity. Complete discontinuance, however, 

 was slow, for we have an edict of Charlemagne, of the year 789, punishing with 

 death those who continued to burn their dead according to the pagan custom. 



1 IS Anthropologic, 1894, pp. 472-3. 



2 Baron de Baye, Gongres de Wilna, 1893. 



3 Gongres de Moscou, 1892, p. 233. 



