[BenLurkin]

[D]eceased were typically left in a basket in the water until fish consumed the body's soft tissues. The skeletal remains were then cremated, placed in an urn, and buried beneath a house.

Charming.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s a form of excarnation, which is one of the three primary ways cultures handle their dead — the other two being inhumation and cremation.

[Waverunner]

This guy says, don't even need to be dead....