Stone boxes in East Prussia

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The stone boxes in East Prussia are burial sites from the Neolithic Age in what is now northeastern Poland .

Distribution area

You can find them in the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , in the former East Prussian districts of Allenstein , Ortelsburg and Osterode .

classification

According to Carl Engel (1895–1947), the East Prussian stone boxes form the north-eastern continuation of the Nordic megalithic architecture and the Kujaw facilities on the lower Vistula in Poland . However, they differ greatly from the Kujaw systems.

description

The eight stone boxes in the Ortelsburg district examined by the district caretaker Tiska brought the first insights into this type of Neolithic plant.

The total of eleven plants in East Prussia were all sunk into the ground and were not, like most of the Kujavian, under hills . The two to four meters long and one meter wide boxes are partly block boxes corresponding to the closed Urdolmen , partly so-called plate boxes. They contain a body burial laid down as a stool (only a double burial in Rohmanen). The addition of animal bones, boar tusks and a typical ceramic shape points to the spherical amphora culture (KAK). The other ceramic decoration shows connections to cord ceramics and the Schönfeld culture . Disc-like, dotted amber pendants and polished hatchets made of banded flint from the Krzemionki mine in southern Poland are also among the additions.

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