AQA; Archaeology Unit 1 Key Sites

Vedbaek

• Mesolithic, 4000BC – Denmark
• Ertebolle culture
• More bodies than graves
• Ochre, flint knives, teeth jewellery, swan wing, antlers
• Stone on feet – Grave 10
• Ascribe Status
• Mother & Infant burial
• Burial place for the special
• No definite umber of bodies.
• Ertebolle = Hunter-Gatherers

Maes Howe:

• Neolithic chambered cairn & passage graves
• Orkney Islands 2800 BC
• Stone, covered in earth to create a dome
• Mid-Winter solstice
• Possible built on top of or around a house or previous structures
• Stone slabs line entrance to chamber
• Complexity of structure = social elite
• 100,000 hours of work to build it
• Connected to the stones of stenness, Ring of Brodgar & Skarra Brae

Hochdorf

• Iron Age, Celtic burial stie, Germany 530 BC
• When found, mound had shrunk over…