Vedbaek
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- Vedbaek
- Religious key terms.
- Grave goods (antlers, shells, pillow, swans wing)
- Purity (white swans wing)
- Inhumation
- Funerary ritual
- Animism
- Symbolism
- Sacrifies
- Ritual feasting (animal remains)
- Totemism
- Rites of pasage
- Comparative arch sites
- Skateholm, Sweden.
- Skateholm 1 = 65 burials
- Skateholm 2 = 22 burials
- Also used antlers but over legs.
- There were dog burials.
- Buried the same but in prone positions, suggests "ghost killings"
- Dolni Vestonice
- Bodies covered in red ochre
- Triple burial
- Skateholm, Sweden.
- Site description
- Its location is near to the shoreline
- Most of the bodies are extended and supine.
- 18 Graves, which contain at least 22 individuals of various ages.
- Large amount of red ochre sprinkled over the deceased over head or waist
- Features
- 20 year old women, newborn baby (boy) placed on a swans wing.
- boy due to the flint artefact
- Women has a cushion, ornamented with deer teeth and small shells
- Grave 18, woman, man & child. Bone in neck of man, Afterlife
- 20 year old women, newborn baby (boy) placed on a swans wing.
- Artefacts
- Flint knife and axes in male graves.
- Women graves had belts and necklaces. adorned with teeth.
- Red deer antler under woman's head.
- Animal bones, suggests remains of a meal
- Old men and young women recovered the greatest number of grave goods.
- Possible cushion
- Mesolithic burial site, in Denmark
- Religious key terms.
- Site description
- Its location is near to the shoreline
- Most of the bodies are extended and supine.
- 18 Graves, which contain at least 22 individuals of various ages.
- Large amount of red ochre sprinkled over the deceased over head or waist
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