Stone age graves at Dragsholm
The Stone Age graves at Dragsholm are located around 500 meters southwest of Dragsholm Castle in the north of Zealand in Denmark . The two graves are less than 2.0 meters apart. There is a double grave with two women from the Mesolithic period of the Ertebølle culture and a male grave from the funnel cup culture (TBK) from the Neolithic period. Although close together, there are around 1000 years between the graves.
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The Mesolithic woman's grave
The 40 to 50 year old woman was lying on her back, on the right side, facing her, an 18 year old woman was buried in a sideways position. They are dated from 4946 to 4773 BC. Dated. According to isotope analyzes, more than 90% of their diet consisted of marine animals. Red ocher was scattered above and below the dead, but especially in the head area.
The older woman has a necklace off the tusks borne by the wild boar. On the left side of the abdomen, around the hips and above the buttocks, there was a row of 75 grandeln (deer teeth).
The young woman had a knife decorated with a drilling technique in the belt area. Across her back was a row of about 50 grandeln which were originally sewn securely onto clothing.
The grandiose of women's jewelry come from at least 43 deer. Some teeth come from elk and aurochs found outside of Zealand. At the head end lay an awl and a cross-edged arrowhead .
Another collective grave with eight dead was found in Strøby Egede on Køge Bay , which belongs to a settlement of the hunters and gatherers of the middle Ertebølle culture (about 4600 BC). The women were deposited on the southern and the men on the northern side of the tomb, but closely concentrated and superimposed. There were three newborns, a boy of 5 to 6 years, a girl of 9 to 10 years, a woman of about 18 years, a man of about 30 years and a woman of about 50 years. Neither showed evidence of a violent death, but they were buried at the same time.
The Neolithic man's grave
The second grave of Dragsholm is a man's grave and is dated from 3782 to 3637 BC. Dated. The 30-year-old man's diet consisted of only about 15% marine animals. In the grave lay u. a. Bows and arrows, some flint blades , necklaces and an ax. The dead man had a wrist protector on his left hand and amber beads were sewn onto his clothes .
literature
- T. Douglas Price, Stanley H. Ambrose, Pia Bennike et al .: New information on the Stone Age graves at Dragsholm, Denmark . Acta Archaeologica 78: 2, 2007, pp. 193-219.
- 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 .
- Erik Brinch Petersen: Gravene ved Dragsholm. Ask for the band for 6000 days. In: Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark, Copenhagen 1974, pp. 112-120.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 4.4 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ E