Jätinkirkko

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Kastellin Jätinkirkko
Rajakangas jätinkirkko
Kettukangas

Jätinkirkko or Jatulinkirkko ( German  "Giant Church " ) is the name of prehistoric enclosures found in a 400 km long strip along the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland .

The 40 to 50 known stone enclosures are rectangular or oval, single or double walled and have two or more entrances. Although it is inland today, it was by the sea before the postglacial uplift . There is no evidence of their use.

One of the largest is Kastellin Jätinkirkko, which covers an area of ​​60 × 35 meters. The giant churches were dated to the "Sub-Neolithic" (i.e. Mesolithic artists used Neolithic artifacts between 2500 and 2000 BC ). Around 1500 BC The plants were given up.

literature

  • Jari Okkonen, Jari: Jättiläisen hautoja ja hirveitä kiviröykkiöitä: Pohjanmaan muinaisten kivirakennelmien arkeologiaa. Väitöskirja, Oulun yliopisto. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis. Series B, Humaniora 52. Oulu: Oulun yliopisto, 2003. ISBN 951-42-7169-6 . Teoksen Verkkoversio (PDF).
  • Jari Okkonen: Jätinkirkot - Pohjanmaan arvoitukselliset muinaisjäännökset, Arkeologia NYT! 2-3 / 2008 5-7
  • Mairanna Ridderstad: Monuments of Stone and of the Sky. Archaeoastronomical investigations into ancient Finland. Report Series in Astronomy 13. Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, 2015.
  • Katja Martelius: Pohjanmaan kivirakennelmat voivat olla kivikautisia kalentereita Helsingin Sanomat. August 2, 2009. Helsingin Sanomat.

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