It would seem that the bodies of really prominent male
members of the society would be burned and cremated.
And put into urns that were often shaped like huts.
And other lesser members and women would be instead inhumated.
And put alongside these highlighted cremation burials.
And there's grave Gods.
And the necropolis is used from about the tenth
century into the nineth century BCE..
After that, they moved the necropolis away, further East.
And that is probably one of the earliest signs that somebody
has an idea that the forum can serve for something else.
And the only reason why you stop burying
In a place is because the dead carry a certain impurity.!
They are dangerous beings, to a certain extent, and
so you don't want to have them where you're doing something else.
You don't want to have them where you're having some religious rituals.
You don't want to have them where you live.
And so the pushing away of the forum Acropolis's so-called Temple Cratum
is probably the first towards reclaiming that piece of real estate and
making it into something else.
And it happens as early as the ninth century.