Prescribed site: Vedbaek-Denmark
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- Prescribed site: Vedbaek-Denmark
- Date 4000BC
- Contains the remains of 22 individuals
- Buried in oval pits
- One contained woman and child.
- Had over 200 boar and deer teeth pendants and red ochre.
- Perforated snail shells found under woman's pelvis.
- Offerings
- Child on swan's wing and flint knife-purity?
- Perforated snail shells found under woman's pelvis.
- Child on swan's wing and flint knife-purity?
- Child on swan's wing and flint knife-purity?
- Social stratification.
- Establishing rules of behavior?
- Woman, considered to be the mother was 18.
- Had over 200 boar and deer teeth pendants and red ochre.
- Another had a woman with clear injury to the back of the head-blunt trauma
- Found with grebe bill thought to have held a cap in place to hide the injury.
- Represents something about society perhaps?
- Idea of it being unsightly.
- Represents something about society perhaps?
- Found with grebe bill thought to have held a cap in place to hide the injury.
- One contained woman and child.
- 17 adults-8 who died before reaching 20, and 4 newborns.
- 9 men, 5 of who were over 50.
- Seven of burials contained grave goods-1 or more flint knives in association with other goods such as red ochre, an antler axe, a bone tool and pig-tooth pendants.
- Offerings
- 2 have no grave goods, 3 others only have red ochre. Not as important as men-social stratification?
- Also seems to be linked to age of woman or how they died-prestige?
- 2 have no grave goods, 3 others only have red ochre. Not as important as men-social stratification?
- Offerings
- One of the males had a bone point embedded between two of his vertebrae.
- Put there deliberately?
- Seven of burials contained grave goods-1 or more flint knives in association with other goods such as red ochre, an antler axe, a bone tool and pig-tooth pendants.
- 8 women, 2 younger than 20, 3, living to be older than 40.
- 2 suspected to have died in child birth.
- 2 have no grave goods, 3 others only have red ochre. Not as important as men-social stratification?
- Also seems to be linked to age of woman or how they died-prestige?
- Mortality rate of 50%
- Catastrophic event or cultural killing and burial?
- 9 men, 5 of who were over 50.
- All remains bar one buried in supine psoition
- Ritualistic mortuary practice?
- Some of the remains display evidence of violent death.
- Unknown whether of animal cause or human
- Could either be wounds inflicted during hunting or due to clan fights as settlements become more permanent?
- Unknown whether of animal cause or human
- Buried in a line-all died at same time?
- Graves 0.5m to 1m deep.
- Participation.
- Graves 0.5m to 1m deep.
- Focus of attention
- Transmitting memory?+maintaining social solidarity?
- Burial and grave goods explains the unknown?
- Transmitting memory?+maintaining social solidarity?
- Buried in oval pits
- Contains the remains of 22 individuals
- Contains the remains of 22 individuals
- Buried in oval pits
- One contained woman and child.
- Had over 200 boar and deer teeth pendants and red ochre.
- Offerings
- Offerings
- Social stratification.
- Establishing rules of behavior?
- Woman, considered to be the mother was 18.
- Had over 200 boar and deer teeth pendants and red ochre.
- Another had a woman with clear injury to the back of the head-blunt trauma
- Found with grebe bill thought to have held a cap in place to hide the injury.
- Represents something about society perhaps?
- Idea of it being unsightly.
- Represents something about society perhaps?
- Found with grebe bill thought to have held a cap in place to hide the injury.
- One contained woman and child.
- 17 adults-8 who died before reaching 20, and 4 newborns.
- 9 men, 5 of who were over 50.
- Seven of burials contained grave goods-1 or more flint knives in association with other goods such as red ochre, an antler axe, a bone tool and pig-tooth pendants.
- Offerings
- Offerings
- One of the males had a bone point embedded between two of his vertebrae.
- Put there deliberately?
- Seven of burials contained grave goods-1 or more flint knives in association with other goods such as red ochre, an antler axe, a bone tool and pig-tooth pendants.
- 8 women, 2 younger than 20, 3, living to be older than 40.
- 2 suspected to have died in child birth.
- Mortality rate of 50%
- Catastrophic event or cultural killing and burial?
- 9 men, 5 of who were over 50.
- All remains bar one buried in supine psoition
- Ritualistic mortuary practice?
- Some of the remains display evidence of violent death.
- Unknown whether of animal cause or human
- Could either be wounds inflicted during hunting or due to clan fights as settlements become more permanent?
- Unknown whether of animal cause or human
- Buried in a line-all died at same time?
- Graves 0.5m to 1m deep.
- Participation.
- Graves 0.5m to 1m deep.
- Focus of attention
- Transmitting memory?+maintaining social solidarity?
- Burial and grave goods explains the unknown?
- Transmitting memory?+maintaining social solidarity?
- Buried in oval pits
- Located in peat bog away from settlement.
- Boundary zone?
- One empty grave
- Ritualistic idea that although there may be an absence of a corpse, a grave is required to 'free the soul' as it were?
- Date 4000BC
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