Reburial
The Secondary burial is from the Neolithic period established common form of interference prehistoric grave sites, especially in megaliths and barrows .
description
Clearly recognizable aboveground buildings and artificial mounds have been used (also in later times, often by much later cultures ) for burials, dumping of bones or corpses (also in urns ). The archaeologist calls these more recent deposits, regardless of the form, subsequent burials. You can usually find them in burial mounds in areas that may have been elevated at the same time. In the case of larger dolmens , passage graves , stone boxes , etc., the interior space is usually used more quickly (e.g. by the spherical amphora culture (KAK)), possibly accompanied by clearing or laying of secondary floorboards (Megalithic tombs of Hagestad ). The mounds of the megalithic complexes covered with earth were reused in a similar form to the burial mounds.
The subsequent uses of the individual grave and bell beaker culture took place in the upper part of the filling floor of the burial chamber, and access to the facility was usually established by force from above. They were strangers who had no connection to the grave idea of the builders of the megalithic complexes. The destructive nature of the interventions suggests that they were not always regular burials.
A distinction must be made between subsequent burial and the continuous use of natural caves, even if this falls within the same historical period, as these are not structural monuments. It must also be distinguished from the custom of secondary burial that was widespread during prehistory and early history .
See also
literature
- Märta Strömberg : The megalithic tombs of Hagestad. On the problem of grave structures and grave rites . Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Volume 8. Bonn and Lund 1971.