Posted on 07/23/2007 9:28:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Burial mounds are often 4000 to 5000 years old, they are visible to everyone and curious recreationists ask questions about them; questions the council are unable to answer as the research on burial mounds has for a number of decades been at a standstill... Fontijn: "Apeldoorn contains the oldest burial mounds in the Netherlands. The first were constructed in 3000 BCE. Added to this, the conservation conditions are good." What does Fontijn expect to unearth? "Definitely not only skeletons. In earlier excavations, weapons, jewellery and other objects were found. I am also curious about what we will find in the direct vicinity of the mounds. House remains would be an indication that the mounds were built on top of settlements; the houses of the deceased above the houses of the living. During the earlier excavations, rows of poles were also found in the vicinity of the burial mounds. They may have marked processional routes."
(Excerpt) Read more at leidenslatest.leidenuniv.nl ...
Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
That big pot he’s leaning on was the prehistoric latrine.
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