53 Head Burial
Special burial forms provide isolated insights into the cultic imagination of the Late Neolithic. The partial burial of a human skull is unique to the North German Plain. The skull layed in a bowl and was covered by an upside-down so-called giant cup. The burial was also carefully bordered with stones. This skull burial indicates foreign influences that had their origin in the Bohemian Early Bronze Age: There we find not only the custom of burying skulls separately from the rest of the body under clay vessels, but also the giant cup has its models there.
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Bowl
Age: um 2200 v. Chr. Neolithic period
Neolithic period: In the Neolithic period, people began for the first time to actively shape and change their environment: sedentarisation was one of the essential prerequisites for civilisational progress. Farmers cleared forests for their settlements, fields and for keeping livestock. They built their farms out of wooden posts, wattle and daub and clay. Cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are recorded as domestic animals. The diet of the people was now enriched by cereals such as wheat and barley, which were cultivated on farmland.
Material: Ceramics
Location: Metzendorf-Woxdorf
Skull Calotte
Age: um 2200 v. Chr. Neolithic period
Neolithic period: In the Neolithic period, people began for the first time to actively shape and change their environment: sedentarisation was one of the essential prerequisites for civilisational progress. Farmers cleared forests for their settlements, fields and for keeping livestock. They built their farms out of wooden posts, wattle and daub and clay. Cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are recorded as domestic animals. The diet of the people was now enriched by cereals such as wheat and barley, which were cultivated on farmland.
Material: Human Bone
Location: Metzendorf-Woxdorf
Giant Cup
Age: um 2200 v. Chr. Neolithic period
Neolithic period: In the Neolithic period, people began for the first time to actively shape and change their environment: sedentarisation was one of the essential prerequisites for civilisational progress. Farmers cleared forests for their settlements, fields and for keeping livestock. They built their farms out of wooden posts, wattle and daub and clay. Cattle, pigs, goats and sheep are recorded as domestic animals. The diet of the people was now enriched by cereals such as wheat and barley, which were cultivated on farmland.
Material: Ceramics
Location: Metzendorf-Woxdorf