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There are thousands upon thousands of Neolithic tombs in Europe and many of them are collective burials, meaning they contained the remains of more than one person.
However this still represents a tiny fraction of all the people who lived during the Neolithic period.
So what did they do with all the other bodies?
Well... we dunno.
There is also evidence of excarnation platforms for exposing bodies (in the form of post holes and human remains).
There were also cremations with the burnt remains buried.
These activities also leave evidence in the ground and although it's harder to find than megalithic tombs of course that still doesn't account for all the dead people.
There is some evidence from Britain suggesting some excarnation platforms may have been on or beside rivers, with the remains being washed downstream.
Whatever traditions were used, only a select few were ever interred in those magnificent tombs.
So who were those people? Why were they so special?
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However this still represents a tiny fraction of all the people who lived during the Neolithic period.
So what did they do with all the other bodies?
Well... we dunno.
There is also evidence of excarnation platforms for exposing bodies (in the form of post holes and human remains).
There were also cremations with the burnt remains buried.
These activities also leave evidence in the ground and although it's harder to find than megalithic tombs of course that still doesn't account for all the dead people.
There is some evidence from Britain suggesting some excarnation platforms may have been on or beside rivers, with the remains being washed downstream.
Whatever traditions were used, only a select few were ever interred in those magnificent tombs.
So who were those people? Why were they so special?
🤔
Detail shots of the Vendel era draugr of the barrow in The Northman (2022) - taken from "The Northman: a call to the gods" which is a book about the film's production. You can learn more about the pagan details of the film in this comprehensive film about its esoteric heathen lore.
I was surprised to see the village of Boxford, a place I used to get drunk with friends as a youth, is in the news. An oak Mesolithic "totem pole" used by WHG in their rituals was found in peat. Dated between 4640BC and 4605BC, it is the oldest decoratively carved timber found in Britain. These timbers were set in post holes much like the Megalithic monuments that the first farmers would build when they arrived later, and they are sometimes found on the same sites, hinting that monuments like Stonehenge may have been a continuation of a WHG custom.
Although the megalith tradition began either in Brittany or possibly in the Paris basin, it seems even there that the EEF were influenced by a monumental earthwork tradition of WHG. The oldest dated megalith monuments in Europe are the Passy graves from the Paris basin 5061 BC, but undated graves from Brittany seem likely to be older and are the only ones which follow an earlier equivalent Mesolithic monument tradition. Not only did WHG there make large earthworks, that later became the sites of EEF megalithic monuments, but on the island of Hoedic and at Téviec we find WHG graves making use of enormous granite slabs, which seems to be a precedent for the first dolmens built by the EEF who came shortly after. The megalith tradition developed in Brittany between 4800-4000 BC before it spread to Britain where it continued to develop on sites previously associated with WHG monuments (Stonehenge for eg was preceded by a Mesolithic timber monument). Little wonder then that the inbred Megalith elites of Ireland were associated with WHG lineages and preserved ancient WHG phenotypes...
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God-Kings of Neolithic Ireland and Britain / Megalithic Documentary
New discoveries in archaeology and ancient DNA have provided fascinating insights into the mysterious people who built Newgrange and Stonehenge. 2020 has seen the discovery of the world's largest prehistoric monument, a massive Mega-henge right next to Stonehenge…
к этому фильму об англо-саксонском язычестве теперь доступны русские субтитры https://youtu.be/QxqkgymrGXY
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From Runes to Ruins // Anglo-Saxon History Documentary
'From Runes to Ruins' a documentary film by Thomas Rowsell, about Anglo-Saxon paganism.
Independently produced and funded, it is the first documentary to cover the topic of English paganism specifically.
All over Britain there are people whose lives are…
Independently produced and funded, it is the first documentary to cover the topic of English paganism specifically.
All over Britain there are people whose lives are…
Nice little indie doc about megaliths in Yorkshire
https://youtu.be/aN2cLzi2YDU
https://youtu.be/aN2cLzi2YDU
This lecture on the Bell Beaker folk gives more time than I would deem necessary to now outdated ideas about the origins of the people and to the silly question of whether they were an ethnic group or just a material cultural phenomenon (or not even that!). However Ms Derenne concludes that the problem of absolute chronology which could finally resolve the question of whether the Beaker folk came from Holland or Portugal, cannot be resolved with current carbon dating results since these have such wide margins. We need fine scale dating of the period around 2500 BC in both regions to settle the matter. however I am convinced already of the genetic origin of Beaker folk in the Single Grave Culture.
https://youtu.be/YJsp0Q86NFQ
https://youtu.be/YJsp0Q86NFQ
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Eve Derenne - The Bell Beaker Phenomenon: Timeless Questions, New Perspectives
This talk was part of an all day workshop titled 'Interweaving Bell Beaker decorative motifs and textile patterns: Exploring technical and symbolic approaches during the 3rd millennium BCE in Europe'
Which took place at the Natural History Museum Vienna…
Which took place at the Natural History Museum Vienna…
Survive the Jive: All-feed
This lecture on the Bell Beaker folk gives more time than I would deem necessary to now outdated ideas about the origins of the people and to the silly question of whether they were an ethnic group or just a material cultural phenomenon (or not even that!).…
People reacting with thinking emoji may not have seen the numerous videos where i address this topic. Check out the latter part of this video for an analysis of the relevant pottery for eg. https://youtu.be/xJLTXmHuEbI
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Neolithic Iberia - 5000 year old Idols and Megaliths! 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Who built the Neolithic stone circles, cromlechs and tombs of Portugal and Spain? Why did these people make strange plaque shaped idols? Where did they come from and who are the Bell Beaker people who invaded Iberia and replaced the megalith culture? All…
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How cool is this!
It's so rare to find prehistoric depictions of people, human figures, for one thing and for another they're doing something that's basically invisible archeologically.
That little chap up his ladder. Very cool.
The tweet: https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1668542013115908097
It's so rare to find prehistoric depictions of people, human figures, for one thing and for another they're doing something that's basically invisible archeologically.
That little chap up his ladder. Very cool.
The tweet: https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/1668542013115908097