Editing Cemetery (section)

===Middle Ages===
During the [[Early Middle Ages]], the reopening of graves and manipulation of the corpses or artifacts contained within them was a widespread phenomenon and a common part of the life course of early medieval cemeteries across [[Western Europe|Western]] and [[Central Europe]].<ref name="Antiquity 2021">{{cite journal |last1=Klevnäs |first1=Alison |last2=Aspöck |first2=Edeltraud |last3=Noterman |first3=Astrid A. |last4=van Haperen |first4=Martine C. |last5=Zintl |first5=Stephanie |date=August 2021 |title=Reopening graves in the early Middle Ages: from local practice to European phenomenon |journal=[[Antiquity (journal)|Antiquity: A Review of World Archaeology]] |location=[[Cambridge]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |volume=95 |issue=382 |pages=1005–1026 |doi=10.15184/aqy.2020.217 |doi-access=free |eissn=1745-1744 |issn=0003-598X }}</ref> The reopening of furnished or recent burials occurred over the broad zone of European row-grave-style furnished inhumation burial, especially from the 5th to the 8th centuries CE, which comprised the regions of today's [[Romania]], [[Hungary]], the [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]], [[Germany]], the [[Low Countries]], [[France]], and south-eastern [[England]].<ref name="Antiquity 2021"/>