Definitions

1. Harlan H. Barrows was a geographer who considered human ecology to be the unique field of geography. (Web site)

Passage Graves

1. Surplus resources were used on such projects as building large graves – barrows and passage graves. (Web site)

Long Barrows

1. If you include other megalithic monuments such as stone rows, long barrows, cairns, cists, standing stones and others, the number runs to tens of thousands. (Web site)
2. By 2200 BC, Stonehenge and Avebury had become a focus for building, including a large quantity of round barrows and long barrows. (Web site)

Form

1. The oldest graves consisted of wooden chambered cairns inside long barrows, but later in the form of passage graves and dolmens. (Web site)

Tombs

1. Like barrows, entrance graves probably fulfilled wider social and ritual functions than simply being tombs. (Web site)

Dead

1. Neolithic people in the British Isles built long barrows and chamber tombs for their dead and causewayed camps, henges, flint mines and cursus monuments. (Web site)
2. In Cornwall, however, the disposal of the dead was just one of many rites performed at these sites; many Cornish barrows did not contain any human remains. (Web site)

Volga Bulgaria

1. In one of the barrows there were found scales, iron weights and a little bronze lock in the form of a butterfly from Volga Bulgaria. (Web site)

Archaeologists

1. Archaeologists think that the hilltop siting of some barrows is a significant factor in their distribution. (Web site)

Stone Tools

1. Remains of barrows and stone tools and axes have been found, mostly along the Avon valley.

Burials

1. The Kurgan hypothesis suggests burials in barrows or tomb chambers. (Web site)

Burial

1. The word kurgan means barrow or grave in Slavic and Turkic; Kurgan culture is characterized by pit-graves or barrows, a particular method of burial.

Mounds

1. Different cultures ascribe different beings to barrows and mounds. (Web site)
2. Name comes from the mounds or ancient barrows known as sidh where they are said to live and means "people of the (fairy) hills". (Web site)

Tumuli

1. Examples of barrows include Duggleby Howe and Maeshowe.Archaeologists often classify tumuli according to their location, form, and date of construction.

Ancients

1. That the country of Denmark was once cultivated and worked by giants, is attested by the enormous stones attached to the barrows and caves of the ancients.

Bronze Age

1. Distribution of Bronze Age barrows in the area around Wadebridge. (Web site)
2. Barrows and sepulchral mounds strictly of the Bronze Age are smaller and less imposing than those of the Stone Age. (Web site)

Cairns

1. Barrows and cairns were sometimes sited on their own, but more usually were grouped into clusters or linear groups referred to as barrow cemeteries. (Web site)
2. In Cornwall excavation has revealed round barrows and cairns to be complex and varied sites where burial was only one of the rites performed. (Web site)
3. In old Celtic faery lore the sidhe (fairy folk) are immortals living in the ancient barrows and cairns.

Burial Mound

1. A Kurgan is a burial mound - similar to the Barrows or "Fairy Mounds" of Brittain.

Burial Mounds

1. Many Cornish barrows did not contain any human remains and to assume all barrows are burial mounds would be a misconception. (Web site)
2. However it would be wrong to suppose round barrows and cairns were simply burial mounds; in many Cornish barrows no human remains have been found. (Web site)

Barrows

1. Burial Mounds, Barrows, Cairn A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
2. The Unetice culture is followed by the middle Bronze Age (1600 - 1200 BC) Tumulus culture, which is characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows).
3. Archaeologically speaking, barrows or tumuli are large man made mounds of earth used for internment of the dead in Western Europe. (Web site)

Categories

1. Middle Bronze Age
2. Burial Mounds
3. Cairns
4. Time > Events > Barrows > Kurgan
5. Tumulus

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