Cairn grave
The cairn tombs ( Danish Stendyngegrave ) of the Neolithic period (not to be confused with the stone burial mounds from a later period), the mysteriösesten plants in Denmark . They were made between 3100 and 2800 BC. BC, built in the final phase of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). They consist of pit complexes filled with stones, mostly in pairs and in rows with lengths of up to two kilometers, mostly next to a small hut for the dead ( Danish dødehus). Sometimes the groups take the form of teams of oxen (two smaller parallel pits, and a large one behind them) on a trek (Bondesgårde, near Torsted in West Jutland).
After the construction of megalithic tombs had subsided, the facilities were for burials nachgenutzt . But this was not the case in all parts of the country. The cairn graves are only known in Jutland . It is unclear whether cairn graves were actually graves because no bones were found in them. This can be traced back to the sandy, silica-rich soils of Jutland. Stone barrows are long oval pits that are filled with layers of stones. The house of the dead appears as a 0.3 m deep, square pit with traces of vertical posts. This can be an indicator that the "dødehus" was the actual grave. The paired pits may have been intended for animal sacrifices, for in some cases cattle teeth and bones were found at the eastern end.
It should be noted, and is supported by the discovery of a 22 cm long flint ax from Vroue Hede I + II, which belongs to a type (Danish Stridsøkserne ) that does not belong to the classic TBK axes, that this sparsely populated region according to PV Glob one of the first in Denmark to show traces of the cord ceramists .
See also
literature
- Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 137
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 39