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[[Image:Cista.jpg|thumb|<center>Cist]]
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A '''cist''' ({{pronEng|ˈkɪst}} or {{IPA|/ˈsɪst/}}) or '''kist''' ({{IPA|/ˈkɪst/}})<ref>{{cite book | author = Houghton Mifflin | authorlink = Houghton Mifflin | title = The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language | edition = 4th ed | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | date = 2000 | location = Boston and New York | pages = page 339 | url = http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/epub/ahd4.shtml | isbn = 978-0-395-82517-4}}</ref> <ref>[http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster Unabridged] (MWU). (Online subscription-based reference service of [[Merriam-Webster]], based on Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002.) Headword ''cist''. Accessed 2007-12-11.</ref> is a small stone-built coffin-like box or [[ossuary]] used to hold the [[Dead body|bodies of the dead]], and examples of which can be found all over the world. <ref>http://www.calvin.edu/academic/archaeology/uj/publicat/reports/cheney.htm A Cist Burial in Jordan</ref><ref>http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-0895(196309)26%3A3%3C73%3ABIAPFT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X Burials in Ancient Palestine: From the Stone Age to Abraham</ref><ref>http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/6.html
The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs</ref><ref>http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Bologna/bologna_appen.htm Excavation of Cist in Bologna, Italy</ref>
A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a [[cairn]] or long [[tumulus|barrow]]. It would not be uncommon to find several cists close together within the same cairn or barrow. Occasionally, ornaments have been found within a cist under excavation, which could indicate the wealth of the interred individual.
==References==
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==See also==
*[[kistvaen]]
==External links==
*[http://www.pretanicworld.com/Monuments.html Pretanic World - Chart of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Celtic Stone Structures]
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[[Category:Archaeology of death]]
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