Givehøje
The Givehøje are two east-west oriented long hills of the "Konens Høj type" (women's hill - named after a place where they were found) from the beginning of the Danish Neolithic (around 3750–3500 BC). They are located northeast of Bryrup , between the villages of Them and Vinding in Jutland in Denmark . In Denmark, the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) that built the mounds dissolves around 4000 BC. The Ertebølle culture of the Mesolithic hunters and gatherers .
description
The Givehøje are 47 m long, up to 7.5 m wide and (due to erosion only) about one meter high. This is a normal length. The hills can also be over 100 m long. The "Langdos" near Thisted is Denmark's longest burial mound of this type at 132 m. The hills were bordered at the foot by a row of stones. In particular, the sides of the southern long hill show several massive stones, which are probably the remains of an enclosure. The surface of the hill is uneven. This could be a result of the wood chambers collapsing. The hills were placed under protection as early as 1880.
context
The Givehøje were not excavated, but their contents and structures are known from other sites (Salten and Rustrup north of the Givehøje, as well as "Rude Strand" and "Hørret Skov"). The hills of Salten and Rude Strand contained copper plates , which represent the earliest metal finds in Denmark and which in the area of the TBK herald the regional beginning of the construction of long hills. In the early Neolithic, however, there were still large regional differences in burial custom. In Poland and the Elbe-Saale region, the post structures (including long hills) known under the name Niedźwiedź type (NTT) systems are widespread. Long mounds typically contain several consecutive burials. The burial chambers are made of wood or have stone side walls and wooden ceilings.
literature
- Seweryn Rzepecki: The roots of megalitism in the TRB culture . Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Łódźkiego 2011 ISBN 978-83-933586-1-8
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Konens Høj" -type systems or Niedźwiedź-type systems (NTT) - the latter denotes a site south of Krakow in Poland, where this type of system is particularly common - are (apart from earthworks ) in some regions of the large Funnel Beaker culture area earliest cult architecture of the funnel mountain culture.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 1 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 9 ° 32 ′ 42.7 ″ E