Catalan stone boxes
The Catalan stone boxes of the "Cultura de los sepulcros de fosa" ("Sepulcros de fosa" for short, German "pit grave culture" ) from the 5th and early 4th millennium BC. Besides the stone boxes of the Chamblandes type, some of the oldest of their kind and in large numbers have been found in Catalonia in the area around Barcelona in Spain .
They contained plain jugs and bowls, some with tubular handles and knobs, as well as forms of the Vasi-a-bocca-quadrata culture . The shapes are also similar to those of the Chassey and Lagozza cultures within the Chassey-Lagozza-Cortaillod culture and roughly correspond to those found in caves in the Levant in eastern Spain ( Cova de l'Or ). At first they were seen as part of the Chassey culture , which did not erect stone boxes in neighboring southern France . The grave goods consist of pearls , shells and bones, core stones made of flint and obsidian , polished hatchets and trapezoidal arrowheads .
literature
- AM Munoz Amilibia: La Cultura Catalana de los neolitica "Sepulcros de Fosa." (Ed.) Instituto de Arqueologia y Prehistoria, Universidad de Barcelona, 1965.