A megalithic cemetery with a cult house in early Neolithic Denmark

Author(s): Anne Birgitte Gebauer

Year: 2017

Summary

The paper presents a study of a small cluster of three megalithic tombs and a cult house at Tustrup, Jutland, dating from the period of the first farmers in Denmark during the Funnel Beaker period about 3300-3100 BC. The history of this group of monuments is pieced together using the architecture and the building sequence of the monuments combined with events reflected in the pottery depositions. New insights are discussed in relation to the pottery depositions taking place at the tombs as well as the cult house with regard to types of pottery, degree of fragmentation and methods of deposition. Finally based on the Tustrup site, the role of such monument clusters in the early farming communities is addressed.

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A megalithic cemetery with a cult house in early Neolithic Denmark. Anne Birgitte Gebauer. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 429003)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -11.074; min lat: 37.44 ; max long: 50.098; max lat: 70.845 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 14627